The Selfish Programmer
summary
Releases focus on shipping small, useful increments — the one weekend rule — and building a companion app, KameSame, to practice English→Japanese production using an SRS API. Work shows concrete wins: porting Ruby logic into four Postgres views replaces many queries, reducing complexity; CI shrink from three minutes to twenty seconds with targeted AI testing (average intelligence) and a push-to-Heroku $7 dyno setup. Tooling includes a tiny reminder gem (todo_or_die), and the live site has ~2,300 users and millions of reviews.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:06World 1 Stage 1
- 7:40Antisocial Stage
- 14:52delusional Stage
- 18:34egotistical Stage
- 23:24telling people no
- 30:22fickle
- 33:05unhelpful
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