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Global Day of Coderetreat is coming back to Vilnius! Nov 13 is the day for passionate developers looking to advance their craft, for free, and without getting paid. A face-to-face on-site event in true community spirit, taking necessary COVID precautions. …deretreat-vilnius-2021.eventbrite.com

It's the first time in 10 years that I won't be facilitating a Global Day of Coderetreat in Vilnius (due to COVID risk). But I do encourage you to join one of the virtual Coderetreat events in whatever timezone suits you: coderetreat.org/events/

Sadly, this year Vilnius was the only Baltic states city to take part in #gdcr19

If you're passionate about coding and you've never been to a Coderetreat, you owe it to yourself to come to the Global Day on Nov 16. We've got 112 cities around the world joining so far, and Vilnius is one of them: gdcr2019-vilnius.eventbrite.com

Just like LISP, Vilnius Clojure meetup is never quite dead. Resurrecting on May 30: meetup.com/Vilnius-Clojur…

@ramunas_m @jcchavezs @DavidOstrovsky That is high praise, given all the great speakers this year. My vote goes to @adamralph's talk on modeling service boundaries, for clearly presenting a vital skill that needs way more attention in the industry.

The 3 speeches I like the most from #buildstufflt this year: - Distributed tracing by @jcchavezs - Good Enough Tests by @ogrigas - Containers in production by @DavidOstrovsky

Good news - Vilnius is once again joining the Global Day of Coderetreat initiative. If you like the idea of spending the whole day just writing the best code you can alongside other like-minded passionate developers, this day is for you: gdcr-vilnius-2018.eventbrite.com

@liucijus Nobody has expressed their will to facilitate Vilnius Coderetreat yet. C'mon people, it's not that hard! I'll do a 1h Google Hangout training for volunteers.

@ogrigas Have you found a volunteer? I hope to join Vilnius this year an attendee too.

Would anyone in Vilnius be willing to replace me as the facilitator of Global Day of CodeRetreat this year (Nov 17)? Having done it for 7 years straight, I think I'm now ready to take the challenge as a regular attendee.

Had a great time at #RigaDevDays. Thanks for inviting me and for all the medieval food :) twitter.com/RigaDevDays/st…

@liucijus @hesher Agreed. Libraries are there to help solve specific problems. One should normally test whether the end-goal is achieved, not how it integrates to some library, which is an implementation detail that can change.

@hesher Test doubles are fine - they indicate it's easy to decouple and use your API in isolation. What I mean is library specific testing façade which is provided by the library authors.

Providing testkit for a library is a design smell, as it tolerates complexity in disguise. Complexity should be the first thing that comes out in the feedback loop.

This paper reveals the detrimental effects of problem structuring when done by analysts or managers. Problem structuring is really part of exploring the design/solution space and thus should be left to developers: researchgate.net/publication/27…

"Teams that track “velocity” and “story points” treat development as if it’s linear labor. Software development is not like moving a pile of stones." - By @rjs m.signalvnoise.com/running-in-cir…

@TankiaiTaskuota Priklauso nuo susireikšminimo lygio. Nuo šiandien prašau mane vadinti Programų Sistemų Inžinieriumi.

tie žmonės, kurie programavimą vadina kodavimu #sad

To get things done, be ready to sacrifice non essential features that generate design complexity.

"Highly configurable" software usually ends up misconfigured and broken. This applies to infrastructure too.

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@WixEng My pleasure. Thanks for inviting me!

Strive to give more positive feedback to your co-workers. Costs nothing. Works miracles. Good job!

I've witnessed developers grow wings in Coderetreat events. Global Day is November 18 this year. Vilnius joins here: …deretreat-vilnius-2017.eventbrite.com