Vernon Richards | Ghostwriter & Coach

Testing career growth. Beginner: Find the bugs yourself. Intermediate: Use tools to find the bugs. Advanced: Build tools to find the bugs. Master: Influence the system to prevent the bugs.

even our upcoming fixture list is laughing at us

@aremuadeolajr This guy ❤️

Happy Sunday ✝️

Day 3 of #AutomationGuild2026 = DONE ✅ Thank you to everyone who joined and kept the discussions thoughtful and real 🙌 Big thanks to our speakers: @fwmoyer @debs_obrien @TesterFromLeic @GregPaskal @saikrisv @srinivasansk @USI_LeeBarnes @KarimeSZ 👏 10 years in—and still learning together. Don’t miss day 4! 🚀🔥👉 testguild.com/ag-2026/ #AG2026 @testmuai @ForteGrp @mablhq @KobitonMobile

@ryanleecox It's grim 😩

I guess as a Chelsea fan and blowing it at home today I can tell myself, "at least it isn't this...", @TesterFromLeic. Are you pulling out your hair yet?

@StevenD1977 @eddaball79 The overarching thing is this: We've been terrible (by our own standards) but we're still top of the league at the moment. As problems go, I'll take 'em!

@StevenD1977 @eddaball79 Exactly. The troubling thing about is, the system doesn't look right with him in it at the moment. It's starting to worry me a tiny tiny bit, because that's more of a Slot issue, and less of a Wirtz issue.

At risk of being accused of excessive negativity. I just think it’s worth discussion. Since the CL exit/ LC final loss, we’ve played 18 games. We were great against Spurs on title day, fine for a half against Blues and Athletico. Other than that? Stilted, slow, not fluent.(1/2)

I said at the start of the season, if anything stops us it'll be: - Grief - Injury - Bedding in the new players The grief was inevitable and will be ongoing. Injury felt the same. Particularly in defence, but I think Alexis carrying something seems to have caught us out a bit. He needs proper time out to recover I reckon. The bit I'm most worried about is how the players are gelling on the pitch. Aside from a few (Ekitike, Szoboszlai, Allison, and VVD?), most of the players have looked miles off it. I have to admit, I didn't see that happening to so many of them, all at the same time 😳. So that leaves the system/tactics. It looks like Wirtz needs some time on the bench to me. And RB is bothering me too. Remember when Klopp would sign a player and you wouldn't see him for ages? It used to do my head in, but now? Yeah! I get it. I reckon Wirtz needs some of that. Maybe Kerkez too.

There are excuses: Nerves in the lead up to securing title, players pissed for last 4 games, settling loads of new players (and obviously the loss of Diogo). Do the excuses justify the performances or is there a fundamental concern with system/tactics that needs addressing? (2/2)

@Biggies_MaIIs A diabolical post. Approved.

I don’t normally feel sorry for Man Utd but they’ve been very hard done to for that Man City 3rd goal. Haaland being at least 8 yards offside and not picked up by the officials or VAR is scandalous really.

@MartinLFC_ @stehoare 😮‍💨

@stehoare He’s just said on SSN that the deal still happens regardless

I don’t like that ‘yet’

@thenightj0urney Same!

nawt bad

FFS lads 😮‍💨 #LFC

Salah. New season. Fixture 1. #LFC

@TalkingTHFC Filth.

Heung-Min Son has one of the most ridiculous goal catalogues of all-time ✨️ Today as good a day as ever to give it a watch 🇰🇷🍿

@IAM__NONSO I know some folks like to own the games they play. When these cloud services go away, get turned off, etc, goodbye library of games :( If you own a physical copy, as long as your machine keeps firing up, you're golden.

Why do people still buy consoles when cloud gaming is a thing?

@kinginmotion Ha! That's very kind 🙏🏾

@TesterFromLeic Oh no. You’re definitely a hero. We cannot have enough heroes

Yep. Been there. Expected to be lauded like the Testing Hero I am. You discovered the pesky bug and captured it before, that's right, 𝘽𝙀𝙁𝙊𝙍𝙀 our beloved customers got anywhere near it! You're a legend right? WRONG! Weeeeelllll perhaps it's not as simple as that. Here's why: Folks aren't mad at you. They're mad at the bug. Because it comes wrapped in consequences. We're talking any or all of these: ∙Delays ∙Rework ∙Hard conversations ∙Blame (sometimes) ...and maybe more besides 😩 But this is the real value of testing: Revealing what’s uncomfortable, before it becomes catastrophic, God willing. So no, you’re not the villain (although it might feel like it). You’re the one who turned a silent failure into a visible one. And visibility is the first step to fixing it.

@davadora Yeah I've worked at places similar to that as well. It's always a learning experience when that happens, let me put it like that.

@TesterFromLeic I've been there also. Looking back over my career, I think there's a common thread to those places: they didn't understand the true value of an independent testing discipline. Thankfully I've worked at places where they did understand the value, and was rewarded for my efforts.

@TheRedmenTV 😇

Who do we sign? 👀

Yes, I think I will