Software modernisation in banking and finance goes beyond replacing old code. It’s about navigating a risk-averse environment to transform everything from processes to culture. Here’s what we’ve learned about making it all work.
Hear Sam Péchèr reflect on starting out as a junior just as the industry shifted to not writing code at NWRUG this month.
Learn about imperfectly better ways to stub your external requests with Rob Whittaker at NWRUG this month.
Twenty-four refactor-from-retro commits in a week. How the management system started refactoring itself.
Week three of building a management system with Claude Code. Seventeen commits in one day, a command that lasted 24 hours, and the realisation that commands are conversations.
In week two of building a management system with Claude Code, I created fifteen commands in a day. By the end of the week, I’d deleted three of them.
thoughtbot is heading to Haggis Ruby in Glasgow on April 23-24. Come find us.
How I used Claude Code to build a GTD-based management system from a borrowed idea, meeting transcripts, and three days of real work.
Come and see some of thoughtbot’s fabulous workspaces.
In addition to our regular tech leader event in London, we’re partnering with local tech leaders to bring the event to Manchester, Bristol, Brighton, and Edinburgh this year.