Today I was reminded again that mentoring and coaching juniors is one of my most favorite parts in projects/teams.

I've been to the live workshops and it was great! Content is well presented and explained, the practical exercise was awesome. Without doubt the best resource to learn about hexagonal architecture.

Everytime you modify an external data structure as a side effect of a Stream traversal a kitten dies 😢

One selling point of statically typed languages is that the compiler can catch mistakes early. This advantage is lost the moment we express separate domain concepts using the same, general data type.

The problem with dynamically typed languages is that they favor the developer who writes the code at the expense of the person who will maintain it. This is exactly the opposite of what we want.

“The Controllers belong in the ‘controllers’ directory. The Views belong in the ‘views’ directory.” Oh, do you name all your variables “integer” or “string”? Use the directory structure to communicate some relations between parts in the program!

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I have a podcast. It’s called “Agile in 3 Minutes.” Q1. What do I mean by #Agile? A1. I’ll tell you. Q2. Is each episode really no longer than 180 seconds? A2. Yes, including this one. First time listening? Congratulations (it’s well loved) and enjoy. agilein3minut.es/1

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NEWS: GitHub Copilot Chat is now available free in public beta as part of your GitHub Copilot for individuals subscription. github.blog/2023-09-20-git…

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Looking forward to attending craft-conf this year again. #SpringAtCraft

Seminar: Where AI Meets Code I'll be running a free seminar within the next few weeks. Join to hear and share thoughts about the state of tooling and how to safely and effectively use it. michaelfeathers.substack.com/p/seminar-wher…

Me waking up this morning

I've been creating Guided Learning Hour videos and publishing them on YT for nearly a year. Have you seen any? I'd love to hear more about what you thought. Please help me out by filling in this survey: forms.gle/p3ELQEvWZohHQs… Pls repost for reach!

I keep finding people who, when presented with the idea of coding together, assume we mean "having a meeting." 🙄 Dude. Having a meeting about work is not working together. We mean actually doing the work together instead of splitting it up or talking about splitting & doing it.

Have you built your own agent yet? If not, why? Whether it is useful or not isn’t the point. The point is that anyone can do it. You’ve got to do it to really FEEL the magic (I know I know).

flipping the tables

TristanWilson.e(ar)th it used to be good three years ago now it's just a line item that execs tick off/purchase from msft to say 'yeah we gave everyone ai'

Learn something new every day. Some days this is easy; some days, you have to claw for it. Do it anyway. To learn is to grow.