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Your Project, Your Choice

In today's Weekly Dev Chat (March 18) we propose a hypothetical:

If given complete freedom, which project or undertaking would you work on at your current job? If not your current job, then as a personal project?

So, if you're currently working and you get your choice from the Jira buffet or you could propose a new ticket entirely, what would you go for? And don’t worry, the boss is feeling extra persuadable today and there’s no need to time-box. Are you refactoring that entire 700,000-line enterprise codebase (finally)? Are you grabbing your designer to do a complete restart on that eye-bleeding UI/UX that you've had to look at for the past decade? If it's not in your current job, is there a project or learning endeavour you're dying to pursue if only there was more time in the day (or more of you)? Excited to see what's on your personal backlog.

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

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Your Worst Software Development Habit

Join us Feb 25th, 2025 as we discuss our worst software development habits. What is one software development best practice you know you should do but don’t? A best practice you know you need to improve? Spoiler alert, but for me it’s logging. I always forget to add logging to my code and then struggle when a production error occurs, but I can’t debug it in my development environment.

Everyone and anyone are welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others. Learn how to join the chat, and other useful information, here.

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Bold Predictions for 2025

In this chat we will review some 2024 developer’s surveys and then make our own bold developer and technology predictions for 2025. What do you think will happen in 2025? How much of an impact will AI have this year? Will a big tech company fail this year and/or will a new big tech company raise up? What new hardware will come out this year? Will a new job title be created this year, such as how prompt engineer became a job title last year?

What is your bold prediction?

2024 Surveys:

- Stack Overflow 2024 Developer Survey
- JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem Report 2024
- Cloudflare Radar 2024 Year in Review

Everyone and anyone are welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others. Learn how to join the chat, and other useful information, here.