Habits of Efficient Developers
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Argues that interruptions cost about 10–15 minutes of context recovery each time and that long focused blocks matter, shows a quick bash pipeline that processes ~4,000 news files to produce top three sites per country, recommends disable notifications, use docker compose for one‑command dev setups, favor tiny automated scripts over repetitive clicks, practice pair or continuous code review and TDD so tests are green early, and uses a live REPL to explore production behavior.
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- 0:00Intro
- 0:42"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things." - Peter Drucker
- 1:47Focus
- 2:47a. Disable ALL notifications
- 4:34b. Pair Programming
- 5:33d. One thing at a time
- 6:10Master your IDE
- 6:29a. Functionality 2b. Shortcuts
- 6:53c. Pair Programming
- 7:17No menial work
- 8:18YOU ARE A DEVELOPER
- 8:32a. Write programs (for yourself)
- 9:06Bash
- 14:32b. Avoid GUIS
- 15:13c. Automate testing
- 16:313d. Repeatable Developer Environment
- 17:14docker-compose up
- 19:14Fast feedback
- 19:41a. Test-Driven Development
- 22:38Seeing a test fail is the test that tests if the test tests what it is supposed to test
- 23:13I don't know what am going to build
- 23:25business?
- 31:304c. Code reviews
- 33:304c. Continuous code reviews
- 34:52Stop Reflect on how you work Never stop learning
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