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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?

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

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Priorities

There's an old saying: “Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick Any Two.” In any work we do, priorities shape the outcome. What priorities guide you? Are you balancing quick results over technical debt? Features over performance? How do you strike a balance between these? Here's a list (unordered 😊), what would you modify? What drives your priorities?

  • UX/UI Design
  • Maintainability
  • Quick Results (Speed to Market)
  • Performance
  • Security
  • Cost Efficiency
  • Feature Completeness
  • Team Productivity (Developer Experience)
  • Innovation and Experimentation
  • Reliability and Stability

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

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Experiment with GitHub Copilot Workspace

In this Weekly Dev Chat (March 25/2025) we will experiment with GitHub Copliot Workspace. It's a feature that lets you create PRs using GitHub Copilot that will create new files, edit eixisting files, and the like. I'll share my screen and we can do some ~~pair programming~~ pair telling the AI what do.

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

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