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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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1:53:56
Publishing date
2025-02-14 19:45
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https://changelog.com/friends/80
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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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Deeplinks to Chapters

0 Let's talk!
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1101 Jimmy's bangers
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1223 Discovery Coding
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1407 Sponsor: Augment Code
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161 ISPs & Friends
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1617 The four designs story
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1858 Pantsing
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1918 The rubber hits the road
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2102 Not much tooling
255
2498 Stephen King's method
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2717 Applying King's method
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2767 Flow state debate
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3085 Discovery coding != flow
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3128 Discovery coding != bottom up
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3347 Sponsor: Notion
255
3514 How to get started
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38 Sponsor: Temporal
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3997 Discovery code every time?
255
4130 The 2-year debug story
255
4280 The bad open source story
255
4417 The group project plagiarism story
255
4489 Restoring your session
255
4746 Personal comments
255
5009 Implementation details
255
5509 Do you like this idea?
255
5562 Comment pack rat
255
5667 Commit message confessions
255
5746 The Field Notes friend
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5780 Dog visitation
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5859 Beyond the blog post
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6088 Wheel reinvention
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612 Jimmy is back!
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6174 Back to personal notes
255
6303 Does Evernote still exist?
255
6363 Modern OCR tools
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6438 Discovery coding first steps
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6711 Bye, friends
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6760 Coming up next
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821 Blinkist (not a sponsor)
255
982 Packaging matters
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