Choose Your Own Adventure: Our first task at ACME SL
summary
A new hire’s Day 1 onboarding at a company called ACME SL: the talk walks through setting up a developer workstation and configuring the environment from the welcome laptop to getting the first task deployed to production. It focuses on practical steps and tips to go from an unconfigured machine to shipping your first feature, aiming to improve newcomer productivity.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Welcome and introduction
- 1:48Event dynamics and goals
- 4:15First day setup: docs or config
- 6:23Laptop setup with dotfiles
- 9:08Terminal optimization and speed
- 12:30Advanced dotfiles and scripts
- 15:44Command docs and utilities
- 17:31Global dependencies and apps
- 20:01Dotfiles in different shells
- 22:06Dotfiles project and community
- 23:30CI pipeline rescue
- 26:49Hexagonal architecture and failing tests
- 31:04Debugging tests and state handling
- 35:29Dependency injection in tests
- 38:40Behavior modeling in tests
- 41:07Continuous deployment and monorepos
- 43:14Email review and meeting invites
- 45:04Scrum master role debate
- 47:33Summary and final Q&A
- 48:14GitHub Actions and advanced automation
- 55:10Automation with Docker containers
- 57:41Smart notifications in pipelines
- 58:45Call It & Mentoring
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