Out at the lake with the dog. Empathy for coding being hard to learn.

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Learning to code is hard

From yesterday's morning live stream experiment https://youtu.be/S4rHehuG3SE

Good morning

David explains what systems integration really means when it comes down to getting things connected, and what things we are trying to connect in the first place.

What even is systems integration?

Where has software been? Where is it going? Integration is the new hotness & problem to be solved.

The death of custom software development

A little story about two little steam engines racing to the next station. You'll have to listen to find out what this has to do with software.

The fastest little steam engine

Tim goes solo on recent blog posts (GTD, refactoring, books for life), plus volunteering with Doglost, and why on earth it's been 5+ years and still no successful startup.

GTD, Books, Refactoring, Entrepreneurlessness & Doglost volunteering

Tim was David Gisbey's assigned mentor at DfE. They discuss with the benefit of hindsight what makes for a good mentorship relationship.

A retrospective of mentoring, with David Gisbey

David & Tim improve each other's mental health with some unstructured chit-chat. Being unfixable nerds of course we still cover technology and some useful tools.

Still hiding from covid19

David and Tim just a have a catchup to keep sane in isolation. They discuss lessons learned from 2 years at the new DfE Digital including how to migrate platforms well, and how to do personal backlogs in the basecamp-shapeup style instead of a single backlog of doom.

Hiding from Covid-19 and the end of 2 years at DfE

As posted at https://podcast.ditchinghourly.com/episodes/coaching-call-with-tim-abell - reposted with permission. https://jonathanstark.com/

Ditching Hourly coaching with Jonathan Stark

Tim talks (rambles?) about the challenges of getting contributions to schema explorer now that it's open source, and about some things from his trello board of business ideas.

Oh no people are contributing to schema explorer!

Tim explains what he's learned about Shape Up! and David asks questions - https://basecamp.com/shapeup

A look at basecamp's "shape up" method

Update on schema explorer https://schemaexplorer.io/ and introducing https://just5mins.transistor.fm/1

Schema Explorer update and introducing just5mins show

Duncan, David & Tim go a bit deeper into the outsourcing experiment, share a bit more about themselves, and learn about David's new role.

Guest Duncan Brown asks about outsourcing

Tim goes solo - talks about the show title and a first adventure in outsourcing.

Show titles and outsourcing

Tim Abell & David Sheardown look for ways to help you solve your problems with computer things. - https://timwise.co.uk/ - https://twitter.com/tim_abell - https://twitter.com/davidsheardown

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