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Real Programming S01E03: Baby Needs New Shoes!

TDD, Programming, Geekery, Kotlin, Technique, How I Work, Real Programming Series / August 28, 2020

This entry is part 3 of 10 in the series Real Programming

Real Programming S01E03: Baby Needs New Shoes! Watching those itty-bitty numbers for the dice is making me crazy, so let’s get some dice images going today! If you want to follow along in the code, the project is https://github.com/geepawhill/yz Transcript Hey there. Welcome to episode 3 of Real Programming, the show where we’re still trying […]

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Change Harvesting vs Rework Avoidance

Modern-Synthesis, Change Harvesting / August 28, 2020

Let’s compare and contrast the RAT (Rework Avoidance Theory) model of software development with the CHT (Change Harvester Theory) model. The differences are multiple and pronounced, so this may take us a while. It is not rote for me: there are many more important things to be doing right now than geekery. I’m actively supporting

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Iterative User Value in Flows

Change Harvesting, Modern-Synthesis / August 25, 2020

A flow app, one that steps the user through an acyclic graph, typically gathering info at each stage, can be built to provide iterative user value by gradual refinement. Let’s look at how that’s done. Before we get into it, for me, and maybe for you, too, geekery right now is not the most important

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Real Programming S01E02: Look, Ma! A Test!

TDD, Programming, Geekery, Kotlin, Technique, How I Work, Real Programming Series / August 22, 2020

This entry is part 2 of 10 in the series Real Programming

Real Programming S01E02: Look, Ma! A Test Last time we did a rapid-fire model/view split, just so we could test. Now we gotta test this bad boy a little! If you want to follow along in the code, the project is https://github.com/geepawhill/yz Hey, it’s GeePaw and I still have Wally, and Molly’s off camera, and

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The Correlation Principle

Programming, Modern-Synthesis, Change Harvesting / August 21, 2020

The correlation principle says that our productivity is tightly correlated with the internal quality of software. The two go up together, and they go down together, and you can’t trade away the one to get more of the other. Let’s talk it over. I remind us that geekery isn’t the main story right now, though

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Iterative User Value

Change Harvesting, Modern-Synthesis / August 18, 2020

How do we iterate user value? How can we follow the "more smaller steps" approach and still deliver a positive experience for the user? Today let’s look at some ways to approach this problem. It’s important for me to remind you that, for me and many others, working for equity in the world is far

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Real Programming S01E01: Getting Started | Video

Real Programming Series, TDD, Programming, Geekery, Kotlin, Technique, How I Work / August 17, 2020

This entry is part 1 of 10 in the series Real Programming

(Video: https://vimeo.com/448155181) Real Programming S01E01: Getting Started Hi Folks! In this first episode we lay the groundwork for a simple desktop Yahtzee application. If you want to follow along in the code, the project is https://github.com/geepawhill/yz Transcript Hey, folks. It’s GeePaw sitting out here on my deck, where I do most of my work in

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Pathing: A Style of Laying Out Work

Programming, Change Harvesting, How I Work / August 14, 2020

I do "pathing" when I project my work into the future: laying out a sequence of work steps, where each step ends with the code in a shippable state. More than design, and more than planning, pathing is a kind of work-style, and it brings me several benefits. Here in the US, citizens are out

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Embrace Change: Modern Geekery Practices

Programming, How I Work / August 12, 2020

"Embrace change" is the modern geekery catchphrase for our most basic idea: We change software, therefore we want everything around us to support that: code, technique, tools, controls, tracking, planning, infrastructure, and above all, culture. Before we start, remember, geekery’s not the main story right now. The real embrace of change is happening out there

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Pedagogy In The Trade: Changing Emphasis

Pedagogy / August 7, 2020

I want to start talking about teaching in the geek trades. Today in particular, I want to talk about "emphasis", what our style & materials stresses or underlines about the path to mastery for our up and coming geeks. Black lives matter. Here I sit writing geekery, a sideshow, while my siblings are out there

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