How to Scratch an Itch
summary
Side projects report concrete outcomes: a citation editor called NiteSight reaches millions of users; a Chrome extension runs images through mustachifier and spikes to 5 million requests per hour, later breaking 20,000 broken browsers when face.com shuts down; a Ruby mocking tool (Gimme) shapes later libraries; a new test double package ships as testdouble.js; a SimplySafe homebridge adapter provokes live alarm trips; an emoji-to-Ruby transpiler stays small with zero GitHub issues.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:17Creative Spark
- 3:25My Creative Spark
- 5:35Creativity is Privilege
- 6:28My Incompetence
- 8:03Fear
- 10:48Lessons Learned
- 15:11Thought Leader
- 17:56Trust
- 18:52Test Doubles
- 21:06SignOn
- 21:48The impedance mismatch
- 22:51My own programming language
- 23:45Its okay to build stuff
- 24:20Conclusion
