How to prioritize dev experience in the development process
summary
Argument that dev experience is a lever to ship faster, not a luxury: invest where fix time < recurring wasted time. Concrete moves: add linters and a DB access abstraction to prevent class of bugs, build release automation so weekly releases run by a script, replace slow bundler to restore near-instant hot reloads, create keyboard-layout-aware shortcuts infrastructure, run hack weeks/bug bashes, and centralize CI test selection. Works at scale (hourly deploys at large orgs, weekly at small teams) and prevents repeat firefights.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:55What is dev experience
- 2:40Dev experience as a spectrum
- 4:45What kind of system would ensure that
- 7:05Prevention
- 8:48Dev tools
- 11:37Different kinds of developers
- 14:25Internal vs external developer experience
- 16:10Facebook
- 19:45Rayquaza
- 24:46Design
