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Hello, happy Friday!

I am looking to do some in-person "developer boot-up" workshops, and seek your suggestions for "modern tooling".

The background of the participants range from motivated newbie ("I heard you can make your own app with AI!") to existing software developers who want to get up to speed on modern development for the purposes of building stuff, and getting jobs where AI tools are being used.

For those who have been doing software development & "tech" lately using AI tools, and feel they have a great setup & flow - I would love to hear what your dev setup is, what tools you're using and what workflow has been working best for you (and your team).

// My Background

I have been programming / building for 20+ years, but have not been using AI tools much (aside from hitting up LLM APIs on a few projects).

I value open-source, and aim for long-term quality and supportability. Techniques like test-driven development (TDD), using proven / well documented tools, customer-centric development (often pairing with clients), make it easy to do the right thing. If you are familiar with Pivotal Labs, agile & XP - that's the style.

These are some of the Upcoming uses-cases for the workshop, and my own personal "IT backlog":

- Create a static "one pager" personal/professional website

- Setup a Blog / Static site generator (Pelican), create a simple but stylish theme

- Create a simple web app / backend API (FastAPI) tool - form-based calculator, convert X data to PDFs, etc.

- Figure out how to have SyncThing autosync the home folder of 3 Linux computers in the house

- Backup & archive the photos & video from my iPhone

// Tech stack I am currently using:

- Operating system: Linux Mint Debian (LMDE)

- Editor: VSCodium

- Code: Python, HTML/CSS

- Server platform: Amazon AWS

I am guessing that most workshop participants will be using MacBooks & Windows computers - but a few are on Linux, as I recently did a "Linux install party".

I haven't used any "AI harnesses", agents or anything like that - but curious what's a good starting point to take best advantage of these tools.

Thanks for sharing the knowledge!

// JRO

I work with investors and entrepreneurs - and I often suggest starting with an "open-source by default" mindset, including building a community around an open product.

Some people don't know about open-source, and mention "what if someone copies my idea" and "how can I generate income if its free". I'd love to be able to send them (1) a good high level overview of the What / Why of open-source, and (2) Point to successful examples of open-source commercially successful products & services.

Some ones that come to mind are: RedHat / RHEL, Supabase

Thanks!

I'm based out of Colombia, and use Debian Linux (and my iPhone) to access YouTube. For the past several days, I have been unable to view any videos on YouTube without being logged in (I don't have a Google / Youtube account). Is anyone else experiencing this?

Hey everyone - We are reviewing the HN Who's Hiring post, discussing & documenting tech trends, and overall talkin' shop and gettin to know each other.

Join the video collaboration room (most fun!):

https://pop.com/j/531-840-214

Watch the live stream (PeerTube / MakerTube):

https://makertube.net/w/cAL1cRuHCCvvvJW43EDtyu

HN Who's Hiring post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44434576

This can be helpful for job search, and also to to give guidance on what technologies & tools to invest your time in learning.

If this is fun & valuable, we'll do some more code jam sessions.

// JRO