Week 17, year 2023
- What Does a Technical Author Look Like? - While working with my colleague Mike Mason on a forthcoming article, we asked Stable Diffusion to come up with portraits of technical authors. We thought the results were worth sharing. [Martin Fowler]
- "I'd been building applications wrong for the last 20+ years." - In the summer of 2021 my friend Aaron Pedersen asked me to join him at IBM to rebuild an internal knowledge and sharing platform called Lighthouse. He'd been working on the front-end architecture of this application for years with a team called JLoop. They'd done a great job of creating a UI that was well thought out, and easy to use. IBM loved their contributions but the application still had fatal flaws. [Event Store blog]
- Using ChatGPT as a technical writing assistant - My colleague Mike Mason is an experienced software developer and architect. He's also an skillful writer, with a couple of books under his belt together with plenty of writing for Thoughtworks, including a regular macro-trends article and contributing to the Thoughtworks Technology Radar. In the last couple of months he's been experimenting with Large Language Models (LLMs) both for programming and prose writing. Here he focuses on the latter, sharing how he's been able to make effective use of ChatGPT. [Martin Fowler]
- How to test event-driven projections - Projections in an event-driven world are a way to interpret registered events. We can take a sequence of events and build from them read… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]