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Jun 28, 2023 1 hr 7 min

Don't make things worse!

from Changelog Interviews

Taylor Troesh joins Jerod to discuss a bevy of software development topics: yak shaves, dependency selection, -10x engineers, IKEA-oriented development, his new content-addressable programming language & much more along the way.

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  1. 0:00 This week on The Changelog
  2. 0:58 Sponsor: DevCycle
  3. 3:37 Start the show!
  4. 4:50 Who is Taylor?
  5. 5:33 What about time?
  6. 10:08 12 ways to shave a yak
  7. 13:23 (Don't) create thirsty systems
  8. 16:02 Clever systems produce clever problems
  9. 20:32 Make it like Mario Kart 64
  10. 21:20 Practical tips
  11. 28:00 Sponsor: Drata
  12. 29:43 We make fun of 10x
  13. 35:04 Coding against the bank API
  14. 36:28 Lindy's law
  15. 38:24 Let's talk tooling
  16. 43:12 What will be around in 50 years?
  17. 43:44 TCP and UTP
  18. 45:34 Ikea-oriented developement
  19. 46:55 Easily deletable code
  20. 49:21 Code that's now a liability
  21. 58:26 Scrapscript
  22. 1:04:33 Wrapping up
  23. 1:05:03 Don't make things worse
  24. 1:05:23 Outro

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