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What are you doing this autumn?
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Would you like to attend a talk about how to counter the fear of not being technical enough, or how we can stop making each other feel stupid, or how to make the most of diversity in the workplace? Or maybe you'd like to immerse yourself in one of my hands-on workshops... about refactoring skills, or about using TDD to wrangle AI coding (there's more advice here on getting started with LLM-augmented coding), or facilitating mob / ensemble programming, or on how to handle the technical in technical leadership? Fancy spending time in Spain, or Berlin, or Paris, or Amsterdam, or best of all, lovely lovely MANCHESTER? Come join me! (And my workshops are REALLY good. Ask anyone. Just sayin'.) Here's the full list of events: Deliver Sessions, Zuhlke offices, Central Manchester, 11th Sept '25, TALK: "Are you technical enough?" PulpoCon ’25, Vigo (Spain), Friday Sept 19th 2025, WORKSHOP: Lift up conditional— The magical refactoring (LH) Manchester Tech Festival core conference Day 2, 25th Sept 2025, WORKSHOP: How to handle the technical part of technical leadership Outpace Conf, Manchester, Thurs Oct 16th 2025, talk: "Ensemble Working: The ultimate in collaboration" Lead Dev Berlin, Tue Nov 4th 2025, TALK: “Journeys in Diversity — what difference really means“ Newcrafts Paris, Nov 6–7 2025, Continuous Integration — That’s not what they meant Software Architecture gathering, Berlin, Nov 24th ’25, WORKSHOP: How can you combine AI with Test Driven Development Come join me! I always love meeting people. See you soon. 🔗 Want to share this article or save it for later? Here’s a handy link for you! |
Clare Sudbery
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Matt Squire on stage at Manchester Tech Festival (This is the second post in a series of three, starting here - part 3 may not be published yet.) I was at the always-informative Manchester Tech Festival the other week, where I saw a great talk by Matt Squire, CTO of Fuzzy Labs, with the title "Are We the Last Programmers? AI and the Future of Code". I’ve started experimenting with using LLMs to help me build software, so I'm particularly interested in this topic. Matt covered several areas in...
I’ve started experimenting with using LLMs to help me build software. One of my background goals in life is to remove or reduce the labour-intensive tasks that hog my time. One way of doing this is to automate. I already have tons of little scripts that do things for me... but I've always found that I'm sloooow at creating those little tools and automations. By xkcd. Permanent link to this comic: https://xkcd.com/1205/ So, recently I've started getting LLMs to help me build stuff to simplify...
This week I am officially "on retreat". I haven't actually left my house because budget, but what I have done is cancel all meetings, turn off all notifications, and I'm not doing any small admin tasks or replying to messages unless they're urgent. It started because I was getting frustrated about how much time each week was devoted to "business as usual", and how hard it was to find large chunks of focused time for the following activities: Reading in depth articles, watching videos etc...