Podcast on Nicole van der Hoeven

Nicole van der Hoeven: A Polymath with Obsidian as a Modern Zibaldone

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 09:40:45 +0200

I joined Malik Alimoekhamedov on his podcast The Mechanics of Knowledge Management for a long conversation about Obsidian, PKM, and the Renaissance-era zibaldone tradition — the personal commonplace books that thinkers like Leonardo da Vinci kept as a hybrid of journal, reference, and idea workshop. We talked about how a modern Obsidian vault can play the same role for someone trying to think across domains, and about what changes when you treat your notes as the exhaust of learning rather than the destination.

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Thanks to Malik for the wide-ranging conversation.

Performance Testing With Nicole van der Hoeven (Quality Bits Podcast)

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 14:01:35 +0100

My friend Lina Zubyte invited me to her podcast Quality Bits to talk about performance testing. We talked about what performance testing is, why it is important, how to get started, and how to get better at it. We also talked about the foundation of any type of testing: empathy.

Check out the episode here.

Informed Life Podcast Interview

Sun, 26 Mar 2023 20:14:56 +0100

Information architect, author, and educator Jorge Arango interviewed me on his podcast, The Informed Life, about how I apply the principles of CI/CD to taking notes, why I use Obsidian, and how I use it to learn in public and play roleplaying games.

DevOps Paradox: Performance Testing With k6

Wed, 08 Jun 2022 17:40:22 +0100

Darin Pope and Viktor Farcic from the DevOps Paradox podcast and the DevOps Toolkit YouTube channel invited me onto their show to talk about performance testing with k6, and why it’s awesome to be able to write load tests in languages that aren’t vendor-specific!

Listen to the podcast here.

Conf42 podcast: in the k6 Universe

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 01:27:45 +0200

Miko Pawlikowski interviewed Simme Aronsson and I for the Conf42 podcast, and we talked about:

why I love to learn human languages, and what Esperanto sounds like
the Grafana acquisition of k6
what performance testing is, anyway
whether everyone needs to do performance testing, and my personal setup for this blog
chaos engineering and Schrödinger’s Pokémon
an overview of the Grafana Labs projects landscape
what k6 is, and how we would get started for free (k6 OSS)

Interview on Performance Time Podcast

Mon, 31 May 2021 11:28:18 +0200

I first heard of Stephen Townshend because he happens to have gotten the same introduction to performance testing that I did– our shared mentor, Stijn Schephers. He has started a podcast called Performance Time, where he interviews performance engineers about a variety of topics. This week, it was me!

We talked about how I got started, one of my biggest failures as a performance tester, chaos engineering, what we can do to improve diversity in tech, and why I think note-taking is a key skill for any performance tester.

Testing Our Performance Test Tools

Tue, 16 Mar 2021 21:29:33 +0100

On this episode of the TestGuild performance podcast, I had a chat with Joe Colantonio about languages, board games, nontraditional backgrounds in tech, and why we should all test our performance test tools.

Performance Testing FOMO

Wed, 22 Jul 2020 21:30:43 +0100

On this episode of the TestGuild performance podcast, Joe Colantonio interviews me about how human factors are often not taken into consideration when designing load tests– a mistake that can have serious consequences.

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Entrevista con Señor Performo en PerfBytes Español

Mon, 22 Jun 2020 21:56:02 +0100

Aquí está una entrevista que he hecho con Leando Melendez (Señor Performo) en su podcast, PerfBytes Español. Hablamos de performance testing, mis idiomas, y mis consejos para mujeres que quieren entrar en el mundo de tecnología.

Listen to "Entrevista Nicole van der Hoeven" on Spreaker.