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KFosterMarks

@KFosterMarks@mastodon.social

ultrarunner, writer, & Developer Experience Engineer @ the Developer Success Lab

Background in language teaching pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition, and classroom-based research.

Passionate about integrating social and behavioral science into the tech world, particularly in enhancing how software teams and practitioners learn, work, and thrive.

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I've been waiting for this day 🥲. I'm so proud of all that @CSLee and @KFosterMarks have accomplished with this -- the FIRST science-backed workbook from the Developer Success Lab based on our carefully empirical research into code review anxiety. Completely yours to use.

https://mastodon.social/@CSLee/112456425795414721

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@hazelweakly

Thank you so much for this support! We would LOVE to know how it lands with and helps you and your teams!

KFosterMarks, to random
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Anyone in the mood for an ice breaker question? 😄

Reading a paper on situational self-control strategies (paper linked in comment) and god, this resonates:

"In certain circumstances, it is nearly impossible to exercise self-control; in others, it is trivial to do so."

In what domains or situations does self-control come easily to you, and in which situations does it feel "nearly impossible to exercise self-control"?

(I provide the academic definition of self-control in the comment)

KFosterMarks,
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The paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4736542/

The authors define "self-control" as:

"the self-initiated regulation of conflicting impulses in the service of enduringly valued goals."

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@earth2marsh Tell me more! 😄 Is that a question, or a comment!?

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@earth2marsh Ahh, so it sounds like when you think of self-control, you think specifically about self-control in relation to food?

CSLee, to random
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Having a good team matters and I am truly so grateful that I get to work with one of the best. Just a random gratitude post for @grimalkina @KFosterMarks @flourn0 & Inma (not on masto). 😊

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@CSLee @grimalkina @flourn0

Ugh just same, same, same! 😍

adrianco, to random
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I’m in Denver/Broomfield for a few days for the SW2con (used to be Gluecon) event. Giving a talk on Weds. meeting a bunch of old friends. https://www.sw2con.com/#agenda

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@adrianco @CSLee @rstephensme

Oh my gosh, love this! We are so proud of this work, and so eager to hear how it's helping out software engineering community! 😍

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Listen, Internet, if this doesn’t make you feel better, I don’t know what will.

KFosterMarks, to random
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Reading "Coding Boot Camps: Enabling Women to Enter Computing Professions" https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3440891 this morning. Published in 2021, a few years after I graduated from a coding bootcamp.

The context at that time is described as such: "The difficulty in finding enough entry-level candidates to fill jobs led to companies to consider
hiring from boot camps, creating a demand for the students that boot camps were supplying."

❓ Is there still this demand for entry-level coders, I wonder?

KFosterMarks,
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I'm not seeing it, but I don't see everything in the industry, of course. Curious what folks' perspectives are here.

(Also, I understand that overall demand for software devs is different than in 2021, so no need to comment on that - I'm curious about the "senior" versus "entry-level" distinction.)

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@JeffGrigg To be clear, I'm asking if folks see that there's still a demand for entry-level coders.

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@fortythieves Thanks for providing your experience-based perspective, and this blog post. This makes me so sad for all the entry-level folks out there. I graduated from my bootcamp in late 2016, and it felt like companies were practically giving jobs away to us bootcampers. I wish the environment were different now for folks hoping to make a career change, and for folks just graduating from their CS programs.

KFosterMarks, to random
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❓ Question for y'all software folks:

@CSLee and I are working on creating the Code Review Anxiety Toolkit based on her and @grimalkina's latest research: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8k5a4.

The purpose of this resource will be to enable software developers to understand and mitigate their code review anxiety in a way that is supported by the empirical research.

(❓ question in reply)

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We want to make this resource super accessible for folks, and so are wondering: Would y'all prefer a:

  • text-based workbook?
  • text-based workbook with some supplementary, embedded videos?
  • podcast-style audio guide?
  • video tutorial/guide?
    -something else we haven't thought of?

Basically I'm asking: Do you prefer text, audio, or video? Truly, this is for YOU, so we want to know what works best for you. Thanks in advance for providing your feedback and preferences!

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@mafe Thanks for this! We are definitely committed to accessibility, here, and I appreciate your reminder of just how very important that is!

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@LeafyEricScott Oh, I love that idea - and this highlights an "intended audience" element: We may very well need to create different resources for different audiences. I.e., an individual contributor who has no desire to "reveal" their anxiety to their leader or team would want a slightly different resource than someone facilitating a code review anxiety workshop to a group of opt-in software devs at a company.

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I'm considering writing a literature review or annotated bibliography that surveys major scholarly work around DevEx. I have about a million writing projects I'd like to do, though, so thought I would see if y'all thought this kind of piece would be useful and interesting.

The purpose of the piece as I'm imagining it would be to survey major scholarly work in the DevEx domain in order to educate folks about the empirical, scholarly examination of the concept.

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Work like Fagerholm and Münch's seminal piece https://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.1452.pdf and @grimalkina's quite recent piece https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/qz43x would be included.

Does this sound interesting, necessary, impactful, etc to anyone here?

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@gvwilson Okay Greg I do already have a dog, but I just told my DSL colleagues that I have SERIOUS "puppy fever", and they've all talked me OUT of getting a puppy. If you're willing to potty train the pup, I will drop all work immediately and write this literature review lololol

KFosterMarks, to random
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Okay serious question: Do we think there's a place for autoethnographic research in ?

From "Toward a Moderate Autoethnography" by Sarah Stahlke Wall:

"Autoethnography is an avant-garde method of qualitative inquiry that has captured the attention of an ever-increasing number of scholars from a variety of disciplines."

...

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"Grounded in postmodern philosophy that makes room for diverse and nontraditional ways of knowing, autoethnographic work produces 'highly personalized accounts that draw upon the experience of the author/researcher for the purposes of extending sociological understanding'”

I've read some excellent autoethnographies that deepened my understanding of social and psychological phenomena, and engendered in me a level of empathy for varying human experiences.

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This by Phiona Stanley is one of my absolute favorites: https://www.routledge.com/An-Autoethnography-of-Fitting-In-On-Spinsterhood-Fatness-and-Backpacker-Tourism/Stanley/p/book/9781032070988

As a software engineer and reader of software engineering research, I wish there were folks out there doing this kind of qualitative research.

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@sasha It would definitely take a unique individual with a blend of both software engineering experience, qualitative research literacy, and some level of academic background in the theories being examined in the autoethnography. Most software engineers wouldn't have the requisite professional and academic background to produce this sort of research, I think.

But there are folks out there with this blend of experience...

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@sasha I imagine you were quite OVER-prepared for the modern workplace, based on the wholesale (and alarming!) lack of epistemological awareness we see demonstrated in the corporate realm 😆

KFosterMarks, to random
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You can hear @CSLee and @grimalkina talk about their latest empirical research study - "Understanding and Effectively Mitigating Code Review Anxiety" - at Tech Skills Day next Thursday, April 25th 😄

Sign up here for our discussion on code review anxiety and other software dev research: http://bit.ly/devsuccesslab-techskillsday, and read the research here: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8k5a4

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