duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction
Sandi Metz, All the Little Things, Ruby on Ales 2014, Bend, Oregon
(slides)
"The Rise and Fall of Personal Computing"
Sometimes extremism is a better point of view than conservatism.
Insight
the lack of attention span that makes our eyes glaze over when we read swaths of procedural code looking for the one thing we actually care about is the same thing that prevents us from tolerating long-form exposition of approaches to help us deal with the problem.
Boundaries
I’ve got a real problem with formal education in today’s world, and I’m sad to say that when it does matter, it’s about the piece of paper. Schools are no longer the institutions that push the boundaries of what is possible (they can no longer keep up)… that’s going to happen at your workplace
The scientific method
Look, the goal is to prove I’m wrong. That means I win. I’ve proved I was stupid about something so that I can move on to being stupid about something more interesting.
Danielle Sucher, The Debugging Mindset, Ruby Rogues #150
Wetware as a Service
A lot of applications require straight up manual effort… This is what has stimulated some chunk of the SaaS industry. And what’s really ironic is that what they’re providing is not software.