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Tech Solutions to Global Issues: Always, Sometimes, or Never?

“The trick is not to skate where the puck is, but to skate where the puck is going.” This is Wayne Gretzky quoted in an article from IndustryWired in March 2019. The article highlights our urgent global challenges and advocates for technology as a solution. It presents solutions like:

  • Carbon Capture
  • Grid-Scale Energy Storage
  • Universal Flu Vaccines
  • Earthquake Prediction

What are your views on technology’s role in addressing the big global issues? Does tech offer the most effective approach? Are there negative side-effects to always leaning on tech for solutions to such problems?

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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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