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WeltzeitgeistGreat video. Watch it!
(This is Prof. Ada Palmer @adapalmer)
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Daniel Terhorst-North@marick @sanityinc @defuneste @RonJeffries This goes right to the heart of 'but TDD isn't automated testing, it is using little code examples to guide your design iteratively and provide feedback'. 'test-driven' is such a shockingly misleading term for a design method guided by runnable examples.
Nexta@ecomba @thirstybear I agree, team areas, separated from other teams noise.
Recent office experiences with team members scattered across random hot desks on multiple floors are worse than useless, everyone just using headphone and zoom. Might as well be at home then.
I want team areas, with enough whiteboards to design and think together, and to have real tangible information radiators again (dreaming here!)
Chris PittsFinally got around to writing about the 4 Demands on a Team’s Time, a model @tastapod introduced me to a while back.
https://blog.thirstybear.co.uk/2026/02/the-four-demands-of-software-development.html
@gvwilson have you tested the theory that an llm would provide a good answer? I don't believe it would.
I am interested in building a coherent useful mental model of a subject. Llm's don't operate at the model level so this requires reading thoughts from expert human teachers, such as you.
Also, an Llm's shallow summary (or mashed together summary) doesn't help me grow or understand deeply.
@gvwilson
Wow. Great song
Wow. Great song
Robotistry has movedHaving one of those days where the #LongCovid limitations hit hard.
I was scrolling through Mastodon when I found a post about a book I'd like to read. It's a technical book that I would normally expect to have strong feelings about.
Like "I completely agree with the problem but this solution is completely unworkable for reasons x, y, and z. Here is a different, better way of thinking about it!" or "That's excellent and very persuasive. How can I apply it to my work?"
And here I am, doing my mandatory stay-horizontal-if-you-don't-want-headaches time.
Knowing that if I buy the book, I probably won't be able to read it.
If I can read it, there's no guarantee it will do anything but frustrate me as I try to express my feeling about it.
And assuming I wanted to incorporate its ideas into my work, my ability to do work is at such a low ebb right now that there isn't really anything to change.
Long covid: taking all the things you love to do the most and making them unattainable.
@creachadair Rings true for the situation in the UK as well