Larian's Baldur's Gate 3 is poised to be one of the biggest cinematic role-playing games in years & many devs are criticizing the scale/scope of it!...
A helpful reminder for all #softwareDevelopers in 2024 – remember to hold down both the record and play buttons simultaneously to save your program to cassette often as you are coding.
NEW RESEARCH PAPER OUT! In this paper, @grimalkina and I explore how #code review anxiety is maintained and exacerbated to develop a model of code review anxiety. We also go a step further to develop and test the effectiveness of a cognitive-behavioral intervention for code review anxiety, so that we can reduce code review anxiety in an evidence-based and empirically-supported way (because science > vibes): https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8k5a4
NEW: #Dundas Valley #Conservation Area has been ordered by the Ford #Conservative govt to initiate a process to review all of their land holdings & determine all lands which could be sold to #developers and subdivisions built. 😲
It's one of #Ontario’s most spectacular natural treasures; 1,200-hectares of lush Carolinian forests, meadows, streams, stunning geological formations, + array of rare plants, birds & wildlife.
I received the copy of the classic "Programmers at Work: Interviews with 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry" by Susan Lammers (Microsoft Press, 1986) I bought used at a reasonable price.
I last read it three decades ago and didn't remember the book includes reproductions of handwritten notes, drawings, and source code snippets by the featured programmers.
"What leads to #code review anxiety? Our model shows that we can intervene on code review anxiety by targeting the cost bias (when we overestimate the "cost" of a negative outcome) and anxiety self-efficacy (our belief in our ability to tolerate and manage anxiety), with anxiety self-efficacy being the strongest contributor to code review anxiety."
Currently working on a code review anxiety intervention study and it is reminding me just how much I love helping people work through anxiety in an evidence-based way. So if you experience anxiety about code reviews and want to participate in this FREE workshop study, drop a line here and I'll send you an invitation to register! bit.ly/code-review-notification
As a part of my code review anxiety research, I’ve given six workshops on managing #code review anxiety in the last 2.5 weeks. I’ll wait to share the workshop content after analyzing the data and writing the paper, but here are some quick reflections from this work before I take a well-earned vacation. 🧵
The #GitHub#Copilot announcement makes sense when you realize that this positions Microsoft even further to monetize the act of #coding itself.
When you handicap #developers and make them so dependent on LLMs to write code, that (eventually) they no longer know how to do so without it, then suddenly the days of working in a free editor are over.
Insomniac, Blizzard, Obsidian Devs Attack Baldur's Gate 3 Scope, Call it "Rockstar-Like Nonsense"... (www.youtube.com)
Larian's Baldur's Gate 3 is poised to be one of the biggest cinematic role-playing games in years & many devs are criticizing the scale/scope of it!...
OC Creatives of all kinds: check out this delightful list with dozens of FOSS creative tools for artists, photographers, film makers, game devs, musicians, and more! (codeberg.org)
A curated list of delightful tools for digital creatives in a variety of mediums.