One Rule to Rule Them All • Pragmatic Dave Thomas • YOW! 2022

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Dave Thomas - Author of The Pragmatic Programmer ‪@pragdave‬

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ABSTRACT
As developers, we live under a constant barrage of helpful advice, often in the form of rules with cute names. We're told how to design, how to code, how to deploy, how to monitor: there are systems and rules for everything. How can we keep up? How can we know what's good advice, and what's bad?

Over time I've come to realize that just about every good piece of advice is actually a special case of something both more general and simpler. So, let me introduce you to the "one rule to rule them all." [...]

TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
00:57    • Agile is Dead • Pragmatic Dave Thomas...  
01:40 Agile software development
03:47 Classic waterfall
05:26 Theorem proving
06:24 "Correct code"
09:01 Dave's postulate No. 1
10:28 Change
13:21 Easy to change
14:40 How?
20:57 Dave's postulate No. 2
26:35 Building intuition
30:10 Experience
34:22 Handwrite on paper
37:36 Make it easier to change
38:33 Make it fun
38:38 Outro
39:00 Q&A

Read the full abstract here:
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