What is good communication and how do we measure it?
This was one of the questions I tried to answer in the Quality Communication talk I gave last week. Seeing that both I and the audience were engineers, I approached this question by looking at technical models of communication and modeling misunderstanding as "data loss".
In my blog post I was able to go into much more detail than I could in my talk. You can read it here: https://patrick-moelk.eu/en/blog/quality-communication/concepts/
As an introvert I don't typically like being the center of attention. It took me some courage, but I gave a talk this Wednesday at the #QualityEngineering #meetup at #JetBrains in Berlin. With a record number of signups I delivered my talk titled "Quality Communication" in front of 100 people.
If you are interested you can finde the slides on my website: https://patrick-moelk.eu/en/events/talks/2025-08-06-qualitity-communication/
#publicSpeaking #developers #qualityAssurance #communication #engineering
To my own surprise, I was much less nervous than I thought I would be. Thanks to the great, kind, and engaged audience I quite enjoyed it. It might just be addicting.
With that in mind I'm considering giving a workshop on #InfrastructureAsCode (#IaC) with #Terraform / #OpenTofu. This may be at a meetup, conference, or a company. Would you be interested? Do you know of a meetup or conference where that would fit in? Let me know.
Back in the day, Twitter used to be really good if I set up a thread to connect freelancers with clients. Let's see if Mastodon can do it.
Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments
Freelancers/contractors: get in the comments
Everyone else: boosts appreciated.
The market is *dead* for freelancers and a big part of that (in my opinion) is fragmentation. Let's get that network effect *back*.