Software Should be Free

Guest Just-5-Mins on outside-in-testing (cross-post)

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

The importance of fully automated outside-in tests

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.

Writing the sln-items-sync dotnet tool

timwise.co.uk/2024/01/13/new-tool-sln-items-sync-for-visual-studio-solution-folders/ justfivemins.com (David's podcast) buttondown.email timwise.co.uk/subscribe

Git merges, regression testing, hexagonal architecture blog-to-rss-to-email

https://timwise.co.uk/2023/10/20/use-kdiff3-for-merge-conflict-resolution/ https://timwise.co.uk/2023/10/20/git-what-do-'base'-'local'-'remote'-mean/ https://timwise.co.uk/2023/09/28/what-is-hexagonal-architecture/ https://timwise.co.uk/2019/10/14/merge-vs-rebase/ https://timwise.co.uk/subscribe/ https://github.com/rustworkshop/gitopolis/tree/3a8eb6e868a4e42370e8f4d587ad0e8525e9da2e/tests

Beware "Fast Talkers" and "Pattern Obsessives" - evolve your architecture

- 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, moving to tech lead, right-to-represent idea

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!

Working identity and a recovering contract market

* 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 ed...

The new direction and some email and calendar tips

Tim is going to do more digital delivery (contract), while defending time for building useful things for podcasters and being involved in that space, all while being good at email and being a great family man. This episode was livestreamed with video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzcWCdVrbTE https://savvycal.com/articles/inbox-zero/ https://charmconsulting.co.uk/ https://businesscoachdirectory.com/ https://timwise.co.uk/2020/09/15/effective-gtd-with-trello/

Coaching update and the end of exploration phase

Live stream - De-fusion of the mind

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

Learning to code is hard

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

Good morning

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

What even is systems integration?

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.

The death of custom software development

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

The fastest little steam engine

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.

GTD, Books, Refactoring, Entrepreneurlessness & Doglost volunteering

GTD Book list for the children, and life Refactoring and legacy code Failing to start xchain in 2015 doglost.co.uk @tim_abell - message me if you're listening!

A retrospective of mentoring, with David Gisbey

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

Still hiding from covid19

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. • https://www.realvision.com/grant-william-keynote-speech • http://danielamerman.com/va/ccc/G4SecBear.html • https://financialmentor.com/ • https://blog.trello.com/gtd-getting-things-done-maximizing-productivity-trello • https://trello.com/b/wN52OefB/software-should-be-free-podcast

Hiding from Covid-19 and the end of 2 years at DfE

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.

Ditching Hourly coaching with Jonathan Stark

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

Oh no people are contributing to schema explorer!

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. https://timwise.co.uk/subscribe/ + https://jonathanstark.com/resources + https://www.betterhelp.com/ + https://sunnylenarduzzi.com/best-online-business-plan-2020/ + https://musicformakers.com/

A look at basecamp's "shape up" method

Tim explains what he's learned about Shape Up! and David asks questions - https://basecamp.com/shapeup - https://timwise.co.uk/2019/11/26/time-to-shape-up-your-scrum-process-the-new-thing-from-basecamp/

Schema Explorer update and introducing just5mins show

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

Guest Duncan Brown asks about outsourcing

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

Show titles and outsourcing

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

Choosing an audience we can help

Introducing David Sheardown (@davidsheardown on twitter) 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. Things we mentioned: - http://schemaexplorer.io/ - Zero to One on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804139296