I'm very excited to be keynoting the JManc unconference next week ON MY BIRTHDAY! Woop! Come along to this FREE ALL DAY community event on Fri 10th July. jmanc.org/schedule

Schedule

JManc Unconference

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SoCraTes UK 2026 was a fantastic event as always. Sadly this year we sold fewer tickets and had fewer sponsors than we hoped, and the upshot is that we finished this year’s event with a shortfall of £2,300. :(

Wondering how to spend your training budget? Join @socratesuk.bsky.social Training Day (nr London, Jun 18) with Lisi Hocke for her session, “Secure Development Lifecycle Applied”. Learn threat modeling and secure coding to make things more secure every day! socratesuk.org/training_day... (1/5)

Stop working harder and start delivering faster. Join @socratesuk.bsky.social Training Day (near London, June 18) to meet @agile-otter.bsky.social for his session on Value Stream Mapping! 📊 Reveal hidden waste and optimize your team's interactions. 🔗 socratesuk.org/training_day... (1/4)

Only six weeks to go now until SoCraTes UK 2026! We’re very excited, and we’re now on a final push to sell as many tickets as possible. We’re a community not-for-profit event, and every sale makes a huge difference to us.

Want to be more effective? Join @socratesuk.bsky.social Training Day (near London, June 18) to meet @emilybache.com for her session: “Legacy Code - Characterization Testing with Approvals”. 🛠️ Learn Approval testing to get control of legacy code! 🔗 socratesuk.org/training_day... (1/4)

What are you going to learn this year? Join us at @socratesuk.bsky.social Training Day (near London, June 18) to meet @claresudbery.bsky.social, with her session “Using TDD to get better results from LLMs/AI”. 🚀 Combine XP rigour with AI coding assistants to build reliable software. 🤖🧪 (1/4)

Where else could get in-person teaching from world-renowned trainers? The @SoCraTes UK CIC unconference’s Training Day (in the UK near London from June 18th, links in comments) includes Duncan McGregor & Nat Pryce, with their session “I Suppose This Is My Life Now - Mercilessly Refactoring AI Code”.

For those in Manchester, I'm hosting some TDD fun with the tiny maze kata at Ada in Ancoats tomorrow night. Come join me! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/xpmanchest... www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

XPManchester - Tiny Maze (but Big Fun) Kata

@ClareSudbery will be running April's XPManchester, where she will be having us pair on the Tiny Maze kata using cyber-dojo.org

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The Training Day is back! The @socratesuk.bsky.social ‘26 unconference is in the UK near London from June 18th (links in thread), and we’re excited to announce we will be joined by Gemma Cameron, with her session “Hands-on: Bringing User Stories to Life”.

@SoCraTes UK CIC Training Day: We now have a full programme of content from eight amazing trainers! Our day will start with @Jon Jagger, with his session “TDD Game with Cyber-Dojo”. You will be practicing test driven development away from the pressures of getting things done.

What are you looking forward to this year? SoCraTes software crafting unconferences / open spaces happen in the UK and internationally, in beautiful surroundings and with lovely people. They are my absolute favourite software events, and that’s speaking as someone who attends 10-20 events each year!

SoCraTes UK - Tickets

Join us for another year of SoCraTes UK happening on June 18th - 21st! The event is hosted at Milton Hill House, UK which is surrounded by 22 acres of landscaped grounds and forest, delivering…

socratesuk.org

Have you heard of the SoCraTes events? These are software crafting unconferences / open spaces that happen across the world, in beautiful surroundings and with lovely people. They are my absolute favourite software events, and that’s speaking as someone who attends 10-20 events each year!

SoCraTes UK - Tickets

Join us for another year of SoCraTes UK happening on June 18th - 21st! The event is hosted at Milton Hill House, UK which is surrounded by 22 acres of landscaped grounds and forest, delivering…

socratesuk.org

Have you heard of the SoCraTes events? These are software crafting unconferences / open spaces that happen across the world, in beautiful surroundings and with lovely people. They are my absolute favourite software events, and that’s speaking as someone who attends 10-20 events each year!

SoCraTes UK - Tickets

Join us for another year of SoCraTes UK happening on June 18th - 21st! The event is hosted at Milton Hill House, UK which is surrounded by 22 acres of landscaped grounds and forest, delivering…

socratesuk.org

Have you heard of the SoCraTes events? These are software crafting unconferences / open spaces that happen across the world, in beautiful surroundings and with lovely people. They are my absolute favourite software events, and that’s speaking as someone who attends 10-20 events each year!

SoCraTes UK - Tickets

Join us for another year of SoCraTes UK happening on June 18th - 21st! The event is hosted at Milton Hill House, UK which is surrounded by 22 acres of landscaped grounds and forest, delivering…

socratesuk.org

Today we're voting in a crucial by-election in the Gorton and Denton constituency (in the UK), which I happen to live in. I'll be voting for The Green Party's Hannah Spencer, local plumber and all-round great person. Below is a screenshot from a video made by my husband, Ally Fogg.

Have you heard of the SoCraTes events? These are software crafting unconferences / open spaces that happen across the world, in beautiful surroundings and with lovely people. They are my absolute favourite software events, and that’s speaking as someone who attends 10-20 events each year!

SoCraTes UK - Tickets

Join us for another year of SoCraTes UK happening on June 18th - 21st! The event is hosted at Milton Hill House, UK which is surrounded by 22 acres of landscaped grounds and forest, delivering…

socratesuk.org

Exciting news! We've confirmed @emilybache.bsky.social as a trainer for the training day at our event in June! Have you made any plans for 2026 yet? Registration is now open for SoCraTes UK 2026! Register: socratesuk.org/tickets.html

SoCraTes UK - Tickets

Join us for another year of SoCraTes UK happening on June 18th - 21st! The event is hosted at Milton Hill House, UK which is surrounded by 22 acres of landscaped grounds and forest, delivering…

socratesuk.org

Yay, SoCraTes UK training day is back! Out of all the events I attend each year, it's always a delight to be back in Oxfordshire. SoCraTes UK is absolutely my favourite event of the year. It's a cute little community non-profit event, and the one I'm always prepared to find the funds for.

SoCraTes UK@socratesuk.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Have you made any plans for 2026 yet? How about giving yourself or a friend something to look forward to... ...because we have exciting news before the winter break: Registration is now open for SoCraTes UK 2026! Register: socratesuk.org/tickets.html

Have you made any plans for 2026 yet? How about giving yourself or a friend something to look forward to... ...because we have exciting news before the winter break: Registration is now open for SoCraTes UK 2026! Register: socratesuk.org/tickets.html

SoCraTes UK - Tickets

Join us for another year of SoCraTes UK happening on June 18th - 21st! The event is hosted at Milton Hill House, UK which is surrounded by 22 acres of landscaped grounds and forest, delivering…

socratesuk.org

I just spent an unreasonable amount of time creating a web page with all the times I've ever been interviewed and all the times I've ever interviewed anyone... and there are a LOT of these! Topics as varied as...

👩‍💻 @claresudbery.bsky.social (7/10) – “Continuous Integration – That’s not what they meant” → Clear on what CI is and why trunk-based development isn’t automatic.

In tech, nobody knows everything – and that’s exactly how it should be. ✨ In her #SAGconf session, @claresudbery.bsky.social shows how shifting from “How do you not know this?” to “Amazing – you get to learn something new!” can transform team culture. 🌱 Learn more about her session 👉 t1p.de/0new1

The best festival ever needs your help! Awamu Together, cute little music festival entirely in aid of charity (women and girls in the slums of Kampala, Uganda), staffed by volunteers, beautiful vibe.

Do you enjoy learning? What about teaching? I’ve been a software engineer for well over 25 years now (I’ve stopped counting), and something that’s been true throughout my career is that I’ve found myself teaching and mentoring.

When I started unpacking this yesterday, I discovered it was a bigger commitment than I'd anticipated... But once I'd started, I couldn't stop. Thanks for the beautiful gift, @newcrafts.bsky.social!

How does agentic AI affect the next generation of coders? Are new software engineers going to learn less because they’re too reliant on LLMs? @matt-squire.bsky.social from Fuzzy Labs had a lot of really interesting stuff to say about this at Manchester Tech Festival.

[LLMs] How does agentic AI affect the next generation of coders?

More on what Matt Squire had to say about AI at Manchester Tech Festival

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Unmesh Joshi finds LLMs to be a useful tool, but explains why their help becomes illusory if they shortcut the essential learning loop of our professional practice. martinfowler.com/articles/llm...

The Learning Loop and LLMs

How continuous learning shapes effective software development with LLMs

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How does agentic AI affect the next generation of coders? Are new software engineers going to learn less because they’re too reliant on LLMs? @matt-squire.bsky.social from Fuzzy Labs had a lot of really interesting stuff to say about this at Manchester Tech Festival,

[LLMs] How does agentic AI affect the next generation of coders?

More on what Matt Squire had to say about AI at Manchester Tech Festival

queen-of-questions.kit.com

Huh. I've been planning for the last two weeks to share a discount code for Lead Dev Berlin, but life had other ideas and I've only just got round to it. >>>