"Stop Writing Classes" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pEzgHorH0
It changed the way I thought about programming. I had mostly been exposed to OOP ideas and this talk made me realize that a lot of them aren't necessary.
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#12read the transcript before watching the vid; some smooth talkers aren’t saying very much
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#13recently ...
1000x: The Power of an Interface for Performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKgfk8lTQuE
by Joran Dirk Greef
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#14"This is Water" by David Foster Wallace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCbGM4mqEVw
This is one of the two most influential books I've read.
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#15There's no such thing as plain text - Dylan Beattie
Refactoring to Immutability - Kevlin Henney