May the 4th be with you! As I sit in a coffee shop across from my wife, I am struck at just how much fun it is to read, learn, and make micro changes to processes. It is also very funny that a micro change isn’t easy in code / no code solutions! A simple anchor tag change cost me 30 minutes of fiddling with Power Automate. Go Figure

3 Misconceptions of Using CoPilot

Author: Bart Wullems

A thoughtful post around 3 beliefs come people have around CoPilot use or the lack thereof. One Item I would add, developers don’t embrace changes sometimes.

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A Destructive News Cycle

Author: Stephanie Juliot

I can relate to the news today being more negative than positive. As a person of faith, it resonates with me to spend more time in the Scriptures than I spend on news. That is something worth considering if you haven’t done that.

There is a hashtag #3goodthings on Mastodon which fills my feed mostly. I so appreciate those in the mornings over negative news.

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Accessible GitHub CLI

Author: GitHub Blog

I don’t relly think much about not UI based interfaces when it comes to Accessibility. This gives me something to think about.

Optimization for accessiblity is hard. It is even harder when we are automating for UX and don’t have the appropriate data. Maybe a new micro improvement is in the works.

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Coding in the Dark

Author:

I am just blown away by the quality of this research. It should be a must for engineering managers at a minimum to consider the content presented. Thanks for keeping the pulse on the human side of engineering.

Citation: Hicks, C. It’s Like Coding in the Dark: The need for learning cultures within coding teams [White Paper], Catharsis Consulting.

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DTOs - Code Opinion

Author: Derek Comartin

The mention of DTOs, POJOs, POCOs, etc. is enough to get my anxiety up. Mappers and the various approaches compound this problem all for the sake of “Simplicity by Abstraction”. I appreciate the way Derek talks about DTOs in this video and article.

Not mentioned in this article when people try to use DTOs across all boundaries in the stack.

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How to be an expert

Author: Kathy Sierra

For all those AI people out there who claim to be experts. Please read this first.

I hope this is blog gets memorialized like a classic book.

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Lessons from Picking Up Trash

Author: Sean Killeen

Being purposeful over time, is better than being perfect just once. This is a reminder to always be contributing to the larger world!

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Primitive Obsession

Author: Vladamir Khorikov

I have conversations around Primitive Obsession with Engineers at least once a month. Even though it looks like the blog here hasn’t had a great post in a while, there is so much content with value. Don’t just check out the article but also dig in. You won’t be disappointed.

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