The Story Of The Code
summary
Argues that code is a living narrative and gives concrete examples: running create‑react‑app pulls 1589 packages and the demo project contains 1,259,920 lines of JavaScript, dependencies analyzed in a graph DB; shows Go specifics like go fmt and go lint requiring exported comments and how Unicode ToTitle behaved unexpectedly; traces messy repo history across GitHub/Bitbucket, uses unit tests and example tests as documentation, and describes an emergency no-op emergency fix that removed a session dump to stop leaking credentials.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:12Myth of the real programmer
- 9:54Code quality and responsibility
- 15:54Documentation myths
- 23:42Initial commits narrative
- 31:09Storytelling in software
- 36:06Who wrote this code
- 43:30Emergency fixes and debt
- 50:39Perfect documentation pitfalls
- 1:00:39Unit tests as docs
- 1:08:27Pull requests and archaeology
- 1:16:08What we learned
