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We are a community of software developers who are passionate about honing their craft, getting better every day and learning new techniques, tools or languages. We get together regularly, in our Coders Monthly nights and organise other events such as Lean Poker, Global Day of Coderetreat or SoCraTes Day. Come around, join us!
For more, see https://codersonly.org
Kommende Veranstaltungen
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Software Craft Study Group: Reliability Lessons From SQLite
·OnlineOnlineJoin our next session of the Software Craft Study Group to discuss the talk "Reliability Lessons From SQLite" by Richard Hipp: https://youtu.be/V_qzqY1bb7I?si=tvU59v1RTOMseYYO
Please watch the talk before the meeting. We will present a very short introduction to the topic, but that works better as a reminder than a replacement for studying the topic yourself. The main focus of the meeting is a free discussion where everyone can participate.
What is the Software Craft Study Group about?
We want to take advantage of all the great content on Software Engineering available out there and learn from it to become better at our craft. These meetings give us an excuse to actually study these resources and a chance to ask each other questions for clarification as well as share our own experiences. It is also a great place to meet people.
We meet remotely, so you can join from anywhere! And don't hesitate to join if you are just starting your programming journey, as long as you are interested in the weekly topic this is the right place for you.
If you would like to keep the discussion going outside the meetings, join our Discord channel on the Coders Only server: https://discord.gg/QjxgPbF7Cu.
You can also suggest new topics for upcoming discussions or vote for existing suggestions in the topic-suggestions channel: https://discord.gg/WdgXGNxCUR
We also have a collection of links from previous discussions. If you have a link you shared or mentioned in a previous session, feel free to add it there.
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Study Group: The Psychology of Software Teams, Chapter 2
·OnlineOnlineJoin us for the next session of our study group, where we're reading and discussing Dr. Cat Hicks' book The Psychology of Software Teams.
Our topic for this session is Chapter 2: Breaking Up with Brains-in-Jars.This is an informal book club: we meet to share our thoughts, questions, and half-formed reactions to what we've read. Everyone is welcome, whatever your relationship to the software engineering world and however long you've been in it. The only preparation needed is reading the chapter for that session.
We'll shape the group and its format together, taking inspiration from the book club guide the author put together herself: https://catharsisinsight.com/book-club-guideWant to go deeper?
For Chapter 2, Cat recommends two pieces of companion material:- Her LeadDev talk from 2023 "Where we’re going wrong with developer productivity" — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLJCut3VwwQ
- Lee, Hicks, & Foster-Marks (2024), “My code is shit”: Negative automatic thoughts and outcomes of a behavioral experiment for code review anxiety.
Reflection prompts
The guide includes two "Try it" prompts for this chapter. Sit with them for a few minutes before the session if you can.- Look at your team through the lens of all three traps (Brittle Productivity, Lone Genius, and Chilly Climate), then pick whichever one feels most salient right now. Name one concrete, observable sign of it (for example, a sprint that “succeeded” but left everyone wrecked; a story where one person is framed as the only source of breakthroughs; a cue about whose identity is really welcomed in the room). Then identify one small step you could take this week that would help break the thinking trap.
- Look at a tech community you’re part of (an open-source project, a meetup, a Discord or forum, a professional network) through the same three traps. Pick whichever trap feels most salient. Brittle Productivity might appear in unpaid maintainers burning out while everyone praises the project’s “amazing momentum.” Lone Genius might show up in who gets thanked in the release notes versus who did the coordination and community work. Chilly Climate might be present in a community’s inside jokes, its default assumptions about who’s “actually technical,” or who stops showing up to events. Name one concrete sign of the trap, and then write down one thing you personally could do this month to interrupt it.
— from Dr. Cat Hicks' book club guide: https://catharsisinsight.com/book-club-guide
About the series
The current plan is to have one session per chapter and meet every other week, giving everyone plenty of time to prepare. We also have a discord channel to keep the discussion going between the meetings: https://discord.gg/FApmy7zYknSee you there!
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