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January 13th 2022 by Beej Burns
The dictionary defines self-talk as "talk or thoughts directed at oneself." Self talk is the way in which you talk to yourself, your…
January 6th 2022 by Will Gant
Knowledge silos are very common in professional software development environments. They are a natural phenomenon caused by a variety of…
December 30th 2021 by Beej Burns
This is one of the most fun episodes we record each year. Both Will and BJ look forward to reviewing their predictions from the previous…
December 23rd 2021 by Will Gant
The theme for this year was understanding yourself. We focused on a popular personality test, the Enneagram. Each month we talked about a…
December 16th 2021 by Will Gant
When you start a new software project, you probably don't spend a lot of time thinking about how to setup useful and realistic test data. In…
December 9th 2021 by Beej Burns
Test driven development (TDD) is a paradigm where test cases are written based on stories or requirements before any coding is started. It…
December 2nd 2021 by Beej Burns
This topic comes from a listener request made on Twitter. Mina states: "my name is Mina I’m a mid-level backend developer. I really love…
November 25th 2021 by Will Gant
While you don't want to be too quick to categorize someone, categorization does serve a purpose. It gives you a mental model for dealing…
November 18th 2021 by Will Gant
Old technology runs the world. No matter how much you've kept up on newer technology, you'll find some seriously deprecated stuff floating…
November 11th 2021 by Beej Burns
Debugging is an essential part of software development. No matter how great of a developer, or how meticulous you code, you will run into…