Software Should be Free

Tim & Jim discuss what they've learned trying to use AI tools such as github, gpt, windsurf, claude etc to write code in small and large projects, open and closed source.Jim: luxagen.comRotKrakenrkdVibe coding obama memeDavid just5minsWindsurf referer link for bonus creditscursor vs windsurf

From the blog - https://0x5.uk/2025/01/31/why-is-reading-bad-code-so-painful/David's  just-five-mins podcast - https://www.justfivemins.com/ps, when I said "Increased heart attack" I meant to say "Increased heart rate"

A piece on leadership and teams needed to create great software projects and overcome the organisational immune system, all without any fan noise, and an intro from Mark.Unicorn project bookDevOps handbook (hint, DevOps is *not* a separate team or job title, that's just Ops)Culture - The Fearless Organisation bookMeLE Fanless Mini PC Quieter 4CDead Sea Effect

A flowing discussion with Neil about the life of a contractor, before during and after, with some important mental health lessons hard learned along the way. Neil shares advice for people at every stage in the contracting journey, from tentative first steps to options for going beyond contracting, along with his own journey.Neil: https://www.neilmillard.com/LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilmillard/Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@confidentcontractorThe new book: https://www.confident-contractor.co.uk/ - book out 24th July 2024https://www.amazon.co.uk/Confident-Contractor-Thriving-Contracting-beyond-ebook/dp/B0D8QFHBZ1 - preorder now - early bird kindle price of 99p https://www.theministryofinspiration.com/https://rethinkpress.com/books/how-to-write-your-book-without-the-fuss/Share this episode: https://share.transistor.fm/s/26ea1cb5Also in the episode:Self publishing a book with ReThink press - the backstoryThe varied journeys into IT and contractingImpostor syndrome for permies and contractors alike.CapEx vs OpEx

David kindly had me on as a guest on his wonderful "just 5 mins" show to talk a bit more about outside-in-testing and answer some of his questions after my last episode on this show on the matter.- Just Five Mins! Episode 78 - Outside in Testing with Tim

A follow up to my blog post on test automation - with an angle that I think is missing in so much of the software industry - outside in fully automated tests from the perspective of the user is THE most important thing - plus don't let your tests see your internals, not even for setup and teardown.

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- beware fast talkers, as Ray Dalio says in Principles https://www.principles.com/ (as a tweet: https://twitter.com/RayDalio/status/1599056902637248514 )- beware pattern obsessives (any pattern, architecture, SOLID, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Outside-in testing, you name it, someone wears it as a badge)- evolve your architecture - YAGNI, but do think ahead- currently available for c# contracts- building rustworkshop.co

Morning journaling Sunsama daily planning app Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule by Paul Graham Right to represent idea Airtable for making forms and surveys Send me a voice message (may be included in the next show) Let me know you listened!

* Read "Working Identity" for career change https://www.amazon.co.uk/Working-Identity-Unconventional-Strategies-Reinventing-ebook/dp/B004OEIQ7C* Maybe not an agency business...* The contract market is recovering* Yak Shaving - https://seths.blog/2005/03/dont_shave_that/* Trying to build a SaaS in one evening with NoCode (fail)* What's [not very] new in ES6* Why should software be free? - Cloud vs local compute.* Syncthing - https://syncthing.net/Excuse the coughing, I've edited out a few but I am genuinely fighting a bloomin' cold.

https://savvycal.com/articles/inbox-zero/ https://charmconsulting.co.uk/ https://businesscoachdirectory.com/ https://timwise.co.uk/2020/09/15/effective-gtd-with-trello/

companies house snafu De-fusion of the mind with ACT (A liberated mind) Rich-dad cashflow game

Out at the lake with the dog. Empathy for coding being hard to learn.

From yesterday's morning live stream experiment https://youtu.be/S4rHehuG3SE

David explains what systems integration really means when it comes down to getting things connected, and what things we are trying to connect in the first place.

Where has software been? Where is it going? Integration is the new hotness & problem to be solved.

A little story about two little steam engines racing to the next station. You'll have to listen to find out what this has to do with software.

Tim goes solo on recent blog posts (GTD, refactoring, books for life), plus volunteering with Doglost, and why on earth it's been 5+ years and still no successful startup.

Tim was David Gisbey's assigned mentor at DfE. They discuss with the benefit of hindsight what makes for a good mentorship relationship.

David & Tim improve each other's mental health with some unstructured chit-chat. Being unfixable nerds of course we still cover technology and some useful tools.

David and Tim just a have a catchup to keep sane in isolation. They discuss lessons learned from 2 years at the new DfE Digital including how to migrate platforms well, and how to do personal backlogs in the basecamp-shapeup style instead of a single backlog of doom.

As posted at https://podcast.ditchinghourly.com/episodes/coaching-call-with-tim-abell - reposted with permission. https://jonathanstark.com/

Tim talks (rambles?) about the challenges of getting contributions to schema explorer now that it's open source, and about some things from his trello board of business ideas.

Tim explains what he's learned about Shape Up! and David asks questions - https://basecamp.com/shapeup

Update on schema explorer https://schemaexplorer.io/ and introducing https://just5mins.transistor.fm/1

Duncan, David & Tim go a bit deeper into the outsourcing experiment, share a bit more about themselves, and learn about David's new role.

Tim goes solo - talks about the show title and a first adventure in outsourcing.

Introducing David Sheardown (@davidsheardown) and Tim Abell (@tim_abell) as they talk about their journey so far and try and figure out who they can help with a podcast and other services on a product ladder.