What it is you really do?
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Explores the higher-level purpose behind software development by shifting focus from coding practices (tests, design patterns, abstractions, deployments) to what developers actually achieve once software is built and launched. Uses the everyday technologies and activities of programming as the starting point to examine why those questions (choice of database, deployment, abstraction level) matter and what the delivered software enables or reveals about the work.
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chapters (30)
- 0:00Ruby Sponsor envato
- 1:45A turning point
- 2:00My journey
- 4:45The Washington Post Bombers Strike London at Rush Hour Killed on Trains, Bus
- 6:03I got a job with a great mentor
- 7:53Sense of community
- 8:50A chance encounter
- 10:31We change fundamental things
- 10:55We're changing Media
- 12:10We're changing Learning
- 13:21We're changing Finance
- 14:23We're recording our memories
- 18:33The turning point
- 20:01John Sculley
- 23:44Ruby doesn't create great products
- 25:11Balance
- 26:32Hipster Driven Development
- 27:08Build things the right way
- 28:09Lots of products do!
- 29:20Rack it up consciously
- 30:22Incur it consciously Plan to pay it down
- 31:42Beautiful elegant code
- 32:31Justify your technical decisions
- 33:13To the business
- 34:59Good decisions
- 35:44Fertility clinics
- 36:41No technical challenge
- 37:13Created skill erosion
- 39:18I fucking love being a magician
- 42:38Build the right thing the right way
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