The attentive programmer
summary
Argues that programming can be about something, not just do things, and demonstrates it by recreating a 1972 Canonet QL17 as an object‑oriented Python model whose parts, shutter, aperture, film advance and light meter interact so the software behaves like the real camera; the repo is one camera.py of a few hundred lines and has about 150 stars on GitHub. Contrasts intention with attention using Garry Winogrand (over a million photos, ~300,000 unprinted, a decisive 1/250s moment) to show attention as a creative act.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker background
- 3:13Programming as creation and will
- 15:26Attention versus intention in programming
- 22:00Power of attention in photography
- 32:06Love program to a camera
- 41:14Pay attention be astonished tell about it
- 42:17Q&A session begins
