Clare Sudbery

@claresudbery
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Manchester, principal developer (Autotrader), writer (https://queen-of-questions.kit.com/), podcaster (https://bit.ly/making-tech-better), novelist (http://tinyurl.com/DanceYourWay), sleep evangelist #BLM
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Clare Sudbery22h ago
Mia3d ago

I don't want this important news to go unnoticed: the National Library of Scotland's Access team have given names to collection trolleys including: Trolly Parton, George Orwheel, Wheeliam Shakespeare, Daphne du Trollier, Rene Descart, Cart Cobain, JRR Trollkein, Cart Vader, and Mary Wheelstonecraft.

Via @cawston.bsky.social's https://cawston.ghost.io/weeknotes-12-monsters-only/

Weeknotes #12: Monsters Only

A week of interesting chats, admin churn and unexpected tribulations. What happened this week? Monday began with a useful chat with one of our Board members about a large-scale AI roll-out across a multi-national organisation. Initial scepticism has been replaced by seeing dedicated agents delivering huge time savings. Context is

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Show threadClare Sudbery3d ago

We organise in the open, and you're very welcome to chat with the organisers to help, ask questions, give feedback, or simply to watch. You can reach us on the #ev_socratesuk slack channel (https://slack.softwarecrafters.org/), or on mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky, or by emailing organisers at socratesuk dot org.

#SoftwareCraft
#Unconference
#OpenSpace
#TDD
#Refactoring

Join Software Crafters on Slack!

Show threadClare Sudbery3d ago

Tickets are first-come, first-served, so book yours before we sell out!

Can you help? We’re a not-for-profit community open space event (and we’re very cute - just sayin’) so we need all the help we can get with ticket sales and sponsorship. Share this post with your networks, and ask your employer / contacts about sponsorship or buying tickets as brilliant training opportunities for employees.

Show threadClare Sudbery3d ago

For the training day, we've confirmed the following eight legendary trainers:

* @emilybache - Controlling legacy code with approval tests
* @lisihocke - Secure development lifecycle
* @ruby_gem - topic tbc
* @claresudbery - Using TDD to get better results from LLMs/AI
* Jon Jagger - TDD with Cyber-dojo
* Duncan McGregor & @natpryce - Extreme refactoring
* Tim Ottinger - Value stream mapping (@tottinge)

More details: https://socratesuk.org/training_day.html

SoCraTes UK - Training Day

Show threadClare Sudbery3d ago
We're meeting 18th to 21st June at our lovely countryside venue, @milton Hill House in Oxfordshire, and I’m very proud to be helping make it happen. We're also delighted to announce the training day is back 👩🏻‍🏫on the Thursday, followed by the legendary open space event from Friday to Sunday, with organic sessions conceived during the event by all participants.
Clare Sudbery3d ago

What are you looking forward to this year? SoCraTes software crafting unconferences / open spaces happen across the world, in beautiful surroundings and with lovely people. So if you’re making plans for 2026, now’s the time to give yourself something to get excited about...

...because tickets are on sale for SoCraTes UK 2026! https://socratesuk.org/tickets.html

SoCraTes UK - Tickets

Show threadClare SudberyMar 19

We organise in the open, and you're very welcome to chat with the organisers to help, ask questions, give feedback, or simply to watch. You can reach us on the #ev_socratesuk slack channel (https://slack.softwarecrafters.org/), or on mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky, or by emailing organisers at socratesuk dot org.

#SoftwareCraft
#Unconference
#OpenSpace
#TDD
#Refactoring

Join Software Crafters on Slack!

Show threadClare SudberyMar 19

Tickets are first-come, first-served, so book yours before we sell out!

Can you help? We’re a not-for-profit community open space event (and we’re very cute - just sayin’) so we need all the help we can get with ticket sales and sponsorship. Share this post with your networks, and ask your employer / contacts about sponsorship or buying tickets as brilliant training opportunities for employees.

Show threadClare SudberyMar 19

For the training day, we've confirmed the following eight legendary trainers:

* @emilybache - Controlling legacy code with approval tests
* @lisihocke - Secure development lifecycle
* @ruby_gem - topic tbc
* @claresudbery - Using TDD to get better results from LLMs/AI
* Jon Jagger - TDD with Cyber-dojo
* Duncan McGregor & @natpryce - Extreme refactoring
* Tim Ottinger - Value stream mapping (@tottinge)

More details: https://socratesuk.org/training_day.html

SoCraTes UK - Training Day

Show threadClare SudberyMar 19
We're meeting 18th to 21st June at our lovely countryside venue, @milton Hill House in Oxfordshire, and I’m very proud to be helping make it happen. We're also delighted to announce the training day is back 👩🏻‍🏫on the Thursday, followed by the legendary open space event from Friday to Sunday, with organic sessions conceived during the event by all participants.