Discovering discovery coding (Friends)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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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Chapters

1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Temporal (00:00:38)

https://temporal.io

3. ISPs & Friends (00:02:41)

4. Jimmy is back! (00:10:12)

5. Blinkist (not a sponsor) (00:13:41)

https://www.blinkist.com/

6. Packaging matters (00:16:22)

7. Jimmy's bangers (00:18:21)

8. Discovery Coding (00:20:23)

https://jimmyhmiller.github.io/discovery-coding

9. Sponsor: Augment Code (00:23:27)

https://www.augmentcode.com

10. The four designs story (00:26:57)

11. Pantsing (00:30:58)

12. The rubber hits the road (00:31:58)

13. Not much tooling (00:35:02)

14. Stephen King's method (00:41:38)

15. Applying King's method (00:45:17)

16. Flow state debate (00:46:07)

17. Discovery coding != flow (00:51:25)

18. Discovery coding != bottom up (00:52:08)

19. Sponsor: Notion (00:55:47)

http://notion.com/practicalai

20. How to get started (00:58:34)

21. Discovery code every time? (01:06:37)

22. The 2-year debug story (01:08:50)

23. The bad open source story (01:11:20)

24. The group project plagiarism story (01:13:37)

25. Restoring your session (01:14:49)

26. Personal comments (01:19:06)

27. Implementation details (01:23:29)

28. Do you like this idea? (01:31:49)

29. Comment pack rat (01:32:42)

30. Commit message confessions (01:34:27)

31. The Field Notes friend (01:35:46)

32. Dog visitation (01:36:20)

33. Beyond the blog post (01:37:39)

34. Wheel reinvention (01:41:28)

35. Back to personal notes (01:42:54)

36. Does Evernote still exist? (01:45:03)

37. Modern OCR tools (01:46:03)

38. Discovery coding first steps (01:47:18)

39. Bye, friends (01:51:51)

40. Coming up next (01:52:40)