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Joining a Team: Fit In or Stand Out?

When you start a new job, do you bring the habits and approaches you developed at your last workplace, or do you start fresh? Are those old habits holding you back or helping you shine in your new role?

Do you dive in and adapt to the team’s way of doing things, or do you try to share your own ideas and influence your new colleagues?

On the other hand, when you welcome a new team member, what do you expect? Should they follow the team’s lead, or can they bring new ideas to the table? How long does it take for them to really get up to speed?

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 MDT.

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Play with GitHub Copilot Agent in VS Code

GitHub Copilot Agent in VS Code

In today's (2025-05-27) post, we will play with the GitHub Copilot Agent in Visual Studio Code. The agent is different than Copilot Chat as the agent will run commands on your machine, including compiling the project, adding files/directories, and directly editing files.

Will it do what we expect? Let's find out!

Everyone and anyone are welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others.

P.S. - The image for this post was created using Claude 4. I can't create png/jpg, at least not on the free account I'm using, but could create SVG.

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Innovation vs. Structure - When Culture Kills Creativity

Does a playful company culture breed innovation while corporate structure stifles it?

Let's examine:

  • BlackBerry: From Fregin's creative "movie nights" to corporate rigidity... and ultimate failure
  • Twitter→X: From user-driven experimentation to Musk's centralized control
  • Apple: Jobs' chaotic creativity vs. Cook's operational excellence

Questions to ponder:

  • Can companies maintain creativity at scale?
  • Is the innovation/structure tradeoff inevitable?
  • What's your experience in different dev cultures?

Everyone and anyone are welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others.

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