Much of the chatter about GenAI is writing new code, but that's a small part of our work. Adam Tornhill talks to me and my Thoughtworks colleagues about how AI can help with refactoring.

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On Heavy Cardboard we're experimenting with some short board game videos. On this one, I describe the Caylus test, and three games that pass it. (13 mins)

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Alessio Ferri and Tom Coggrave complete their article about introducing seams into mainframe systems, by looking how we can use data replication

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Mainframe processing is often organized into pipelines of batch processes consuming and creating data files. Alessio Ferri and Tom Coggrave show a couple of ways to introduce seams into these pipelines.

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It was great to be in the room with my colleagues as we hatched the 30th radar.

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Alessio Ferri and Tom Coggrave move on to analyzing the internal seams of the application by treating the database as a coarse-grained seam. They describe how they introduced seams into the database readers and writers.

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One of my all-time favorites got a new edition & we are streaming it tonight!

#Shipyard (second edition) from Delicious Games & #RioGrandeGames for your viewing pleasure, tonight at 1900 EDT

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See ya tonight!

As the enmuskification of Twitter continues, I've set up an account on LinkedIn. I'll be posting updates to martinfowler-com on there. I will continue to post them here, but I recommend using one of my other feeds if you can.

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John Kordyback, a treasured colleague and friend, died last week, aged 64

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Alessio Ferri and Tom Coggrave start detailing the mainframe seams they explored with two areas of external interfaces: batch input of files and API access points

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In a recent project Alessio Ferri and Tom Coggrave investigated ways to introduce seams into a long-lived mainframe system to support an incremental displacement strategy

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Ok, this is it. Went to Glassdoor and am removing every single past contribution (salary, review, rating) I made.

The point of Glassdoor was that they keep all this anonymous. The company doxxing people is not something I want to contribute to.

Who knew y'all would like the streams of #AgeOfIndustry as much as you do? Glad to show it off and tonight, we have another map for y'all: Minnesota!

Join us at 1900 EDT for our third AoI map!

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Abi Noda and Tim Cochran outline how to capture qualitative metrics effectively, including a sample survey to get you started. They describe how often it's best to start with qualitative metrics to find where best to apply quantitative metrics.

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Cutesy business cartoons make me want to barf. But despite this, I have to admire this video (4½ mins) from Markus Schüler and Gitanjali V. The heart of the cutesy story is a summary of data mesh, and her drawings make even my inner grump smile.

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There's a github repository managed by Emily Bache with code samples in several languages for the opening chapter of my Refactoring book. She's posted a video to her YouTube channel where she introduces this Theatrical Players kata.

youtube.com/watch?v=TjIrKE…

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Abi Noda and Tim Cochran explain that it's valuable to capture both attitudinal and behavioral qualitative metrics. These allow us to measure the otherwise unmeasurable, providing missing visibility and necessary context for quantitative data.

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It's difficult to measure developer productivity, and conventional metrics are often lacking. Abi Noda and Tim Cochran begin a post explaining the role qualitative metrics can play.

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