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A casual weekly virtual chat mostly focused on web and software development.

Weekly Dev Chat is a place to ask questions, hear different viewpoints, and get to know your fellow developers. Every week there is an initial topic posted to get the discussion started. Sometimes we discuss the initial topic the entire chat, and other times the topic changes several times through the natural flow of the conversation.

Everyone and anyone are welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others.

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Edmonton IRL: Swap Meet and Hardware Show - January 28th

In the Edmonton area and looking to find a good home for hardware you no longer use? Looking for some "new to you" hardware? Have something cool you want to show off? Just want to meet and hang with other technologists in Edmonton?

If you answered yes to any of the above, then you should join at the Weekly Dev Chat IRL: Swap Meet and Hardware Show on January 28th!

For more details and to register, please see the event on Luma:

https://luma.com/dbx9zrfr

Feel free to post questions to this messages thread or DM me.

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Bold Predictions for 2026

What are your bold tech predictions for 2026? Will AI take over or fizzle out? What new job title will emerge? What company will go the way of Netscape? What new invention will change the way we live? Will the Weekly Dev Chat hosts appear on Shark Tank? The bolder the better!

We will document everyone's predictions on the Weekly Dev Chat website and then check on them next year. Your predictions can be anonymous if you prefer.

Everyone and anyone are welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others.

P.S. – Image was generated by ChatGPT.

2026 Bold Predictions

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Great Habits > Great Programmer

Kent Beck, creator of XP and an early proponent of Agile, has said, “I’m not a great programmer; I’m just a good programmer with great habits.”

Do you relate to this take? Do you have any great habits of your own when programming? Do you have some bad habits that you have picked up along the way or see some in other programmers?

Everyone and anyone are welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others.

A GUI window showing some Java code before and after refactoring.