On this edition of WeAreDevelopers LIVE we welcome Kate Astrid, Senior Product Engineer at Cogram and speaker at this past summer's WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America to talk all about cognitive biases in development, and how to overcome them. Of course, we also take a look at the news from the week and separate fact from fiction in a round of Fake or News.
This week we're joined by Kate Astrid, Senior Product Engineer at Cogram, to see if she can tell fact from fiction in a round of Fake or News.
Is Wordpress dropping PHP and picking up Python in its place? Did one person spend $10million on tokens in a month, and is Claude going to cure cancer?
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This week we look back at Mark Cavage's Keynote from the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America, delivered with Michael Irwin and Hervé Bizira, to discuss how sandboxes don't have to slow down your agents, and safety can also mean speed in the agentic era.
On this episode of Coffee with Developers we welcome Yasmine Kordjazy, Backend Developer at The Pool Chefs Companion, to discuss her transition from linguistics lecturing to software development, to hear all about how the two might not be as different as they seem.
Lately, I have found an incredibly annoying pattern in social media—especially LinkedIn posts: the “you are already behind” posts, claiming that by not using product $XYZ you have already been beaten by the competition. These incendiary headlines are often followed up by a testimonial that the author used $XYZ to deliver 10-23x the amount of […]
I’ve stated on several occasions that Lego made me a developer. I was the youngest of four kids who inherited a huge box of bricks with no instruction booklets. So I took lots of smaller bits to build bigger things and re-used skills and ways to connect things. I came up with my own models […]
The other day I found out that you can watch YouTube in Albania without ads. Personally I pay for YouTube and I think it is worth while, but I found that curious. Reasons might be that Google has no advertisement contracts in the country or it may just be too small a market to matter […]
In his excellent talk Get the Core Right and the Resilient Code Will Follow at Beyond Tellerrand in Berlin this year, Andy Bell showed how to sensibly discuss a coding issue amongst your team. He also did a more in-depth write-up on his blog. The problem that Andy described was having a CSS grid with […]
On January 6th, 1995 two bank robbers in Pittsburgh confused law enforcement by not making any attempts to conceal their faces but instead brazenly looking at security cameras as if they were invisible. The reason is that they actually thought they were. Clifton Earl Johnson had convinced his fellow in crime, McArthur Wheeler that covering […]
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