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Giving Thanks and Gratitude

Happy (belated) Thanksgiving! Today's (2026-10-13) chat is giving thanks and gratitude. What are you thankful for, both technology related and just in general? A tool, library, or open source project that made your life better? A coworker, mentor, or community that helped you grow? Any successes from the past year you want to humble brag about? Something else?

Obviously inspired by Thanksgiving, which was yesterday. I'm thankful for you, the amazing Weekly Dev Chat community! Thank you for showing up to listen, ask questions, share you knowledge, tell your stories, and just be a good human. A human that is kind, supportive, and respectful of others.

Everyone and anyone is welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others. Zoom link will be posted at 12pm MDT.

P.S. - Image created by Claude Code with a prompt asking it to create an image for this post. For me Claude is still ahead in coding but behing in image creation.

Terminal window on a teal background with autumn leaves. It shows "$ whoami" returning "grateful" and a git commit "Thank you!" with "1 community, ∞ insertions(+)", next to the title "Giving Thanks & Gratitude", a heart in curly braces, and "Weekly Dev Chat · October 13, 2026"

Code Is Cheap. Show Me the ___.

"Talk is cheap. Show me the code." Linus Torvalds' line assumed writing code was the hard part. With AI tools producing code faster than we can read it, maybe that's no longer true. So if code is cheap now, what's the scarce thing? Judgment? Taste? Tests? The spec? The review? Fill in the blank.

Do you actually review every line the AI writes for you? Be honest. Where do you draw the line between a throwaway prototype and production code? How do you manage your usage: budgets, limits, tasks you'll never hand off? And do you still get the kick from solving a problem yourself, or has the fun moved from writing code to directing it?

Everyone and anyone is welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others. Zoom link will be posted at 12pm MDT.

A dancer performing with live-coded music projected onto their arms

Problems Worth Solving

What's a problem that's been on your mind lately, one you think might actually have a solution, even a partial one? Not "solve world peace" scale, necessarily. Think smaller and more concrete: something in your industry, your city, your daily routine, or your codebase that bugs you, that you've caught yourself sketching solutions for even if only in your head.

Is technology part of the fix? Could better tooling, automation, or a clever bit of software chip away at it? Or is technology part of the problem in the first place, something that got broken or complicated in the name of progress? Maybe it's both: a problem tech created that only more (or different) tech can untangle.

Come share the problem that's stuck in your head, and whatever half-baked solution you've been kicking around. We're not expecting anyone to have it all figured out — that's what the discussion is for.

Everyone and anyone is welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others. Zoom link will be posted at 12pm MDT.

A brass Persian astrolabe, intricately engraved, used centuries ago to solve problems in astronomy and navigation