Mark Seemann

Mark Seemann

@ploeh.dk

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Mark Seemann
@ploeh.dk

@hillelwayne.com I'm embarking on a series of blog posts tackling your PBT / Example Testing comparison problem. Is there any context related to that gist? I mean, why did you originally post it? I tried asking Brian Marick back when you were taking a break: mastodon.social/@ploeh/11600...

mastodon.socialMark Seemann (@ploeh@mastodon.social)@marick@mstdn.social Sorry for the extremely belated reply, but in https://www.crustofcode.com/arriving-at-properties/ you refer to a problem posed by Hillel Wayne. Do you know anything about the cont...
Mark Seemann
@ploeh.dk

Among many other things, I'm also interested in helping improve legacy code bases (C#, F#, or Haskell; possibly Python), as this is typically a really difficult problem. So get in touch if you think I can help.

Mark Seemann@ploeh.dk

The medical open-source project that hired me to help seems to have unexpectedly run out of money, so it looks as though I'm available for hire until November. Get in touch if you think I can help your software engineering organisation. blog.ploeh.dk/hire-me

blog.ploeh.dkHire MeWould you like help with software design, TDD, code review, process, or programming? If so, I may be able to assist.
Mark Seemann
@ploeh.dk

New AI DevOps Podcast episode, this time with yours truly as a guest, in which we discuss code quality related to LLMs, among other things: azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/mark-seemann...

azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.comAI DevOps Podcast: Mark Seemann: AI Code Quality - Episode 415Mark Seemann is a self-employed programmer and software architect based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the author of Code That Fits in Your Head and Dependency Injection Principles, Practices, and Patter...
Mark Seemann
@ploeh.dk

ISTR seeing a figure like my poor attempt at a reproduction posted here. It was, of course, much nicer done, and also IIRC had more details and colour. Can anyone help me track down the original?

Mark Seemann
@ploeh.dk

Min kone fik en ide, der er så god, at jeg var nødt til at dele den. Så nu har vi oprettet vores første borgerforslag: Fjern eller sænk moms på økologiske varer. Denne ide er lidt af et columbusæg, der løser mange problemer på en gang. Støt forslaget her: www.borgerforslag.dk/se-og-stoet-...

Mark Seemann
@ploeh.dk

This was the most interesting episode in a long time. Worth listening to, despite the bad audio quality. Bear with it; the content is good.

Richard Campbell@richcampbell.bsky.social

Can tooling make event sourcing implementations easier? Einar Ingebrigsten talks on .NET Rocks at www.dotnetrocks.com/details/2006 about his open source tool for event sourcing called cratis!

dotnetrocks.com.NET Rocks!.NET Rocks! is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. The shows range from introductory information to hardcore geekiness.
Mark Seemann
@ploeh.dk

As impressive and occasionally useful as LLMs are, the hype means that I'm regularly disappointed when I try to get it to do something useful. Latest example: I want some LLM to summarise a podcast episode. I can even provide a transcript. So far, no such luck. Suggestions?

Mark Seemann
@ploeh.dk

Recently, I've been feeding LLMs photos of hand-drawn diagrams, asking them to turn them into TikZ drawings. This seems to be at the frontier of what LLMs can do. It's not an entire fiasco, but on the other hand not going particularly well, either.