{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdevelopertea.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fcd6f4f06-cd6f4f06","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"15: Code Kata - A Practice Arena for Becoming a Better Programmer","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/c44db1/c44db111-b60d-436e-ab63-38c7c3402406/744eaed9-2e7a-4706-ad23-c9ab4ba617af/1423229096-artwork.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/744eaed9-2e7a-4706-ad23-c9ab4ba617af\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"15: Code Kata - A Practice Arena for Becoming a Better Programmer\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"What was the last time you _practiced_ writing code? Any expertise arguably requires an intentional, focused effort on practicing a set of exercises. Kata acts as the practice exercises for programming.\r\n\r\nIn this episode, I talk about code kata, and I also talk about the danger of being addicted to problems, and making sure we keep our kata efforts separate from our real problem-solving efforts.\r\n\r\n\r\n[codekata.com](http://codekata.com/)\r\n\r\nIf you enjoyed this episode, please consider buying me some tea: http://www.developertea.com/buy-me-tea"}