Discovering discovery coding (Friends)

Fire up a REPL, grab your favorite Stephen King novel, and hold on to the seat of your pants! Jimmy Miller returns to reveal why, at least for some of us, discovery coding is where it’s at.

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Featuring:

• Jimmy Miller – Website, GitHub, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• That time Secret Service busted in Jimmy Miller’s door for hacking
• Blinkist
• Amazon.com: Tools Of Titans
• The best, worst codebase (Changelog Interviews #609)
• Discovery Coding
• Thinking outside the box of code (Changelog Interviews #552)

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