As a facilitator, he'll explain how we self-organise and guide us through 2+ days of creating and enjoying sessions.
We meet between the 18th - 21st June in Oxfordshire (UK) at a lovely countryside venue.
This year, we welcome Romeu @malk-zameth.bsky.social as our facilitator for the Open Space! A familiar face in software crafters' circles, he'll want to code with us all :D
If you're as keen as us to experience what that'll be like: registration is currently open 🎊 .
socratesuk.org/tickets.html
Get your tickets for the training day itself on Thursday 18th June - and consider staying for the whole conference until Sunday to get maximum benefit and enjoyment!
Full line-up for the training day: socratesuk.org/training_day...
Registration open now: socratesuk.org/tickets.html...
Lisi Hocke will discuss how to make things a bit more secure than yesterday every day, in her session "How to create a secure development lifecycle" at #SoCraTesUK 's training day.
A great opportunity to up your security game, whether you're starting on your journey or already a practitioner.
Have you heard of the SoCraTes events? These are software crafting open spaces that happen across the world, in beautiful surroundings and with lovely people. So if you’re making plans for 2026 yet, now’s the time to brighten up your February and give yourself something to look forward to...
Today I learned about Google Trends... But the graph that I got out of it somehow looks different to the one that you got.
Where does this graph come from? What does the note at the start of 2022 say? And how come TDD has been steadily trending downwards ever since???
Have you heard of the SoCraTes events? These are software crafting open spaces that happen across the world, in beautiful surroundings and with lovely people. So if you’re making plans for 2026 yet, now’s the time to brighten up your February and give yourself something to look forward to...
Can you give some examples of "vulnerable to tone of CV"? I hadn't realised this was a thing. What happens, the candidate uses a particular tone and the language model favours their CV?
Excited to listen to @nearestnabors.com share their pearls of wisdom on using LLMs next week at @xtclondon.bsky.social ! Join us for pizza, drinks and fun convos - sign up now! www.meetup.com/extreme-tues...
I never got into Empath for some reason. Must give it another listen.
(At the time, I was really sad that Devin had broken up DTP, given I enjoyed Transcendence more than basically any of his albums since City and Ocean Machine. This could have caused me not to give it a chance.)
City is pretty much the only album this heavy that I actually like. I really wish Devin could make another one like it.
Agreed, large numbers of agents working on the same codebase will have issues (same as large numbers of human devs). But I assume you could prompt each agent to rebase, fix any merge conflicts, and rerun the tests before merging, just like a human dev would do.
I confess I haven't tried having multiple agents working on the same codebase myself, but surely it's like having multiple _developers_ working on the same codebase... Try not to have them work on the same area at the same time, deal with merge conflicts, try not to get in _too_ much of a mess...
tidyfirst.substack.com/p/party-of-o...
Happy New Year Jason!
Merry Christmas Jason!
More like there's plenty of well factored code around but it's not sitting on GitHub/Stack Overflow in plain view for you to train your model, it's proprietary and you can't get your hands on it...
(Post deleted and re-posted due to typos.)
Does this not imply that there's a gap in the market for a model that is trained on his quality code (I joke about training a model on Kent Beck's commit log and then using that), which then spits out code that *doesn't* suck...
We organise this conference 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 (slack.softwarecrafters.org), on mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky, or by commenting on this post.
For more information on the training day, visit socratesuk.org/training_day...
Tickets are first-come, first-served, so book yours before we sell out!
#SoftwareCraft #Unconference #TDD #Refactoring
Exciting news! We've confirmed @emilybache.bsky.social as a trainer for the training day at our event in June!
Have you made any plans for 2026 yet? Registration is now open for SoCraTes UK 2026!
Register: socratesuk.org/tickets.html
Have you made any plans for 2026 yet? How about giving yourself or a friend something to look forward to...
...because we have exciting news before the winter break: Registration is now open for SoCraTes UK 2026!
Register: socratesuk.org/tickets.html
I have avoided Deliveroo for years, every since they did that to me and I _did_ end up paying for two takeaways.
Dare I ask what tech they use? I've experienced some pretty poor laundry tech in the past, so interested to hear what this lot use!
Scooby do meme with fred about to pull the cape off a villain labelled product engineer. In the second frame he has revealed the villian and is labelled agile software developer
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SIX new chapters (6 to 11) have been added to the MEAP (Manning Early Access Program) release of our “Effective Behavior-Driven Development" book. They cover Formulation, the practice of turning concrete examples into business-readable specs
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Too bad half the comments seem to be people saying stuff like "software isn't engineering because the government didn't regulate it".
Ha, first Rob and now *you* are on the front page of Hacker News. (No comments yet, but watch out, it's only a matter of time...)
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4584...
