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Mark Videon
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Software developer living on the edge of the Earth
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 5h
Find it challenging to be confident in what is appropriate for a post vs a thread vs an article vs a chapter but on balance I think it is better to just keep moving
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 1d
If I was given the opportunity to beam one and only one message across the world, at the moment it would be this:
A software project worth pursuing has much more in common with the Manhattan Project than it does with the construction of a residential home.

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Commoditisation, Or Lack Thereof
This is the part where the rubber hits the road. There are two famous big-picture analogies that I've seen used to describe software development. First, a story of incremental improvement where the d...
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 2d
We're getting warmer now. I wrote a bit about the division of labour in software

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The Division of Labour
In my last post I wrote about code and how it was important to understand that there are many quality metrics by which code can be considered 'good' or fit-for-purpose, and many of those metrics are i...
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 2d
When they make a television you can watch Apple TV on your Apple TV once you setup your Apple TV
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 3d
A short-form post on code & quality metrics

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An Introduction to Code and Quality Metrics
For some time I've been developing an idea that I think is pretty powerful, and it is the heart of my upcoming talk at DDD Adelaide, The Digital Factory - Anyone Can Understand Software Development. T...
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 4d
Distinction and high distinction at dance challenge, we ball!!!!!!! ⛹️‍♂️
Photo of a ribbon and a medal from a dance challenge
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 4d
Asked around about you here and no one had heard of you
Photo of the entrance to a shopping centre complex named “Mid City”
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 5d
The Apple of old would never have let this make it to production
An element in the iOS Notification Centre swiped left with the ‘Clear’ call to action blurred to the point that it is unreadable
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 6d
I wrote about a brief article about memory pressure challenges and how we addressed them

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Navigating Extreme Memory Pressure
Last year I joined the WikiCamps re-platform project. If you're not familiar with the app, WikiCamps is a travel companion - users are able to explore and contribute to the available sites within a re...
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 10d
I wrote a brief article about how custom lint rules can support a real production use case: we wrote an app and now we want to understand how people use it

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Using Static Analysis & Custom Rules to Support Refactors
My first draft of this post followed on from the story I started to tell in A New Day. I want to try to keep the story of the factory under wraps for a little while longer but I will share that I'll b...
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 11d
It's an acquired taste
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 11d
Getting acquainted with custom lints and taking the time to sprinkle a little Australiana in there
A demo for a custom rule for static analysis in Dart. A function returns a Flutter widget of type Scaffold. The (violated) rule warning reads: "Oi mate. Don't create instances of Scaffold, ya pelican".
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 12d
This makes me an international speaker I’m counting it
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 12d
Construction analogies are commonly employed - building of a house or a story of incremental improvement - a bike, then a car, followed by a plane. I would like to offer an alternative and I implore you to join me and explore the factory, no golden ticket required!
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 12d
Voting has concluded, sessions have been revealed, and my talk has been selected for DDD Adelaide 2025. ☺️

I look forward to presenting "The Digital Factory - Anyone Can Understand Software Development" and sharing a framework that anyone can use to understand a big picture view of the work we do.
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 16d
It's going to be a big year 🤐
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Mark Videon @realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 16d
I'm back home and it's a new day.

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A New Day
I've just returned from my first trip to Fluttercon. It's the third time in as many years that I've travelled overseas for a professional conference and each time has been a pretty emotional experienc...
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