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Crossing the Road Together
What is your expertise, and how might we teach it?
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Write Forgettable Code
Making design judgements based on our tendency to forget
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Exploring Cognitive Functions for Software Engineering
How might we apply cognitive psychology to our work?
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October 2023

Help me choose future topics?
Which theme resonates most with you, and which would you eagerly anticipate reading?
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TDD Made Intuitive: Spec-First Thinking
Why we should embed spec in our workflow.
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September 2023

TDD is unintuitive. Does it matter?
How our intuition may not be as reliable as it seems.
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Test First vs Last: Disappearing Rewards and Present Bias
Exploring how present bias and reduced rewards impact the test-last approach
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Test First vs Last: Task Aversion and Confirmation Bias
How the sequence of writing tests may reduce the impact of confirmation bias.
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August 2023

Test First vs Last: Mere-exposure effect
How the sequence of writing tests affects our understanding of what should be built.
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July 2023

Stop flipping around, put them side-by-side
Pause and organise your screen estate to reduce your cognitive load.
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Test First vs Last: False Positive
How test results can deceive us and how the sequence of writing tests affects it.
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Test First vs Last: Introduction
A psychological comparison of writing test first and last.
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