Mark Videon
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Digital products have digital factories. I talk about both. Based in Adelaide, Australia.
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Who is the best developer in the world?
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The Best In The World
If you've been following along and understanding most of what I have been talking about, you have a pretty good idea of what software developers do. I've written about putting The Plan together. Makin...
https://blog.markvideon.dev/the-best-in-the-world/
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Iāve travelled to Melbourne for Freeplay stuff a number of times and it has never failed to inspire. Very sad to see this
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Interestingā¦
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This one is about the metaverse... or is it
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Revolution After Revolution
There is a modern tradition where when new technologies (or primitives) emerge they are accompanied by a chorus of people who are prepared to assert in good faith or otherwise that the game has change...
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Metroid Fusion is incredibly punishing, if this were the only game in the series I had played Iād probably never touch the seres again
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How hard could it be
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With Nintendo Switch Online I've been playing games that I always wanted to play as a kid but never had the opportunity to, and folks, Metroid Zero Mission rules
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This kind of stuff has been totally ground out of video games for so long that many people would have no idea that once upon a time there were modes of engagement beyond transactions
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Youāre building something that has never been built before. Youāre asked to guess how long it will take to do it. You are held to this estimate because no one really engages with point 1 Needless suffering
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I am astonished by the increasing prevalence of gambling in (video) games media Are gamblers really performing consumer research to find new games to play?
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Skyās the Limit: The Cloud9 Ć JetBrains Global Hackathon Is Live | The JetBrains Blog
Last month, we announced that JetBrains is now the Official AI-Powered Coding Partner of Cloud9. The response from the community has been incredible, and today, weāre taking the next step in that jour
https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2025/12/09/sky-s-the-limit-the-cloud9-jetbrains-global-hackathon-is-live/
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For as long as I can remember Iāve largely seen mergers and acquisitions celebrated by customers and workers, in defiance of what happens in their wake, time after time.
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Advent of Code has never been my thing. There are alternatives. Here is one a colleague of mine shared with me, where the goal is simply to make continuous progress:
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Oatmeal - December Adventure
The Advent of Code is cool, but a lot, and not everyoneās jam. The December Adventure is low key. The goal is to write a little bit of code every
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Took some time this weekend to do a few proof of concepts of various things I've seen at conferences this year. Great experience using home_widget from
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- amazing docs
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Input handling is a part of Steamās moat that doesnāt get a lot of attention
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There are conferences. There are hackathons. There are meetups. There are workshops. There are a range of opportunities to connect with other people in the field of software development. Is this so different to other fields?
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Conferences, Hackathons, Meetups, Workshops... And Why
Recently I've been summarising what software developers do. My latest post explores what the best developer in the world might look like based on that model. The short answer that there is so much var...
https://blog.markvideon.dev/meetups-conferences-and-why/
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Who is the best developer in the world?
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The Best In The World
If you've been following along and understanding most of what I have been talking about, you have a pretty good idea of what software developers do. I've written about putting The Plan together. Makin...
https://blog.markvideon.dev/the-best-in-the-world/
3 months ago
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If anyone is curious about the behaviour when multiple try-catch-finally blocks are in the same function, the first finally wins.
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3 months ago
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Technology choice. Sometimes the choice is yours, other times it has been made for you. This piece ties a lot of threads together, including the previously explored concepts of the digital supply chain, primitives, and more recently, differentiation.
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Technology Choice: Sketching A Digital Factory
In the last post I wrote about investigating issues in software projects, or in other words, determining the cause between a specified (or planned) behaviour and an observed (or actual) behaviour when...
https://blog.markvideon.dev/technology-choice-sketching-a-digital-factory/
3 months ago
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Iāve used the word commoditisation a lot in previous posts, and itās everywhere in software. We use it in analogies, we implicitly use it in estimation, we implicitly use it when we measure, and we use it to when we write code (or plans). Now for contrast,
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Differentiation, Or "2 Commoditisation 2 Furious"
A colleague of mine (hi Jake!) who subscribes to my newsletter mentioned to me recently that I use the word commoditisation a lot in many of these posts. He is absolutely correct. I think elaborating ...
https://blog.markvideon.dev/differentiation-or-2-commoditisation-2-furious/
3 months ago
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Years ago they used to say software is eating the world, today it seems the world is eating software. (see full attached screenshot). Could not have fabricated a more perfect ad to be placed in the screenshot itself
3 months ago
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Today I had a nice opportunity to test my theory that the way to get the most out of LLMs is to navigate commoditisation. I needed a web page that simulated storing cart state for a store in cookies, commoditised problems all the way down. One sentence prompt worked first go
3 months ago
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Someone, Somewhere (Acoustic Version)
YouTube video by Asking Alexandria - Topic
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I want to see a healthier relationship between technologists and the rest of society. I want everyone to know there is a factory.
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There Is A Factory
In many of the previous posts we have been laying the groundwork for the answers to the big questions. I've already alluded to a division of labour, the role of commoditisation, ownership, the digital...
https://blog.markvideon.dev/there-is-a-factory/
3 months ago
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DDD Adelaide
3 months ago
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2025 offers a better framework for technologists to understand their own work and future as tech rapidly evolves. A clearer way to think about what we do and explain it to anyone. Enter the digital factory šāØ
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Iām concerned by posts Iāve seen on LinkedIn remarking agents must be self-aware/conscious if they āarrive at the conclusionā that theyāre an agent when there would be data about the nature of agents and how they communicate in present in trainingā¦.
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Hold on to your hats. I wrote about the digital supply chain and its inherent instability which may come as some surprise to people who are not digitally native, and discuss risks of the past, present and future.
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Instability, Risk, And The Digital Supply Chain
I've previously written about a division of labour in software development. This concept is relevant for the tools we use to write our plans, to convert our plans (that include an explicitly declared ...
https://blog.markvideon.dev/instability-risk-and-the-digital-supply-chain/
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When I started work on conceptualising the digital factory it was born from a lifetime of personal and professional experiences in a world that is not digitally literate. This post is centred around two questions every client of a software developer has:
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Breaking The Work Up
Contemporary software projects are managed through a set of principles and abstractions that can be helpful for discretising digital products into pieces and once discretised into pieces, creating som...
https://blog.markvideon.dev/breaking-the-work-up/
3 months ago
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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...
https://blog.markvideon.dev/an-introduction-to-code-and-quality-metrics/
4 months ago
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Distinction and high distinction at dance challenge, we ball!!!!!!! ā¹ļøāāļø
4 months ago
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Asked around about you here and no one had heard of you
4 months ago
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The Apple of old would never have let this make it to production
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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...
https://blog.markvideon.dev/navigating-extreme-memory-pressure/
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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...
https://blog.markvideon.dev/using-static-analysis-custom-rules-to-support-refactors/
4 months ago
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Getting acquainted with custom lints and taking the time to sprinkle a little Australiana in there
4 months ago
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Voting has concluded, sessions have been revealed, and my talk has been selected for DDD Adelaide 2025. āŗļø 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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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...
https://blog.markvideon.dev/a-new-day/
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