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Oh boy, what a great source of content. Is there a curated list of the best/most popular ones? edit: ok the sales page has recommendations from the author: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/sale
Oh boy, what a great source of content. Is there a curated list of the best/most popular ones? edit: ok the sales page has recommendations from the author: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/sale
Functional Core, Imperative Shell/Boundaries are two versions of the same talk. One of the best talks I have ever seen on software development, articulates some really great concepts about software design. Applicable in so many places.
Sucks/Rocks series: this one is specific to Rails, but if you write Rails, is quite good. Gary doesn't write things the same way that most people write things, and for good reasons. This explains the details. See also "Fast tests with and without Rails", which you can probably generalize to other frameworks fairly easily.
The "stubs and mocks" sections, together, are really good: Gary is a fan of mocking, and many people aren't. He talks a lot about why, and how to properly mock things.
I just watched "malloc from scratch" yesterday and really enjoyed it.
The conference talks are already free, but while you're digging into DAS...
I very much recommend "The Birth and Death of JavaScript". It basically predicted WebAssembly before WebAssembly existed, and is just a really excellent talk regardless of the subject. You'll see why when you watch it.
"Ideology" is also a fantastic talk about things programmers believe and why.
Oh boy, what a great source of content. Is there a curated list of the best/most popular ones? edit: ok the sales page has recommendations from the author: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/sale
Personal list of favorites: Functional Core, Imperative Shell/Boundaries are two versions of the same talk. One of the best talks I have ever seen on software development, articulates some really great concepts about software design. Applicable in so many places. Sucks/Rocks series: this one is specific to Rails, but if you write Rails, is quite good. Gary doesn't write things the same way that most people write thin…
Thanks for the list
Oh boy, what a great source of content. Is there a curated list of the best/most popular ones? edit: ok the sales page has recommendations from the author: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/sale
Personal list of favorites: Functional Core, Imperative Shell/Boundaries are two versions of the same talk. One of the best talks I have ever seen on software development, articulates some really great concepts about software design. Applicable in so many places. Sucks/Rocks series: this one is specific to Rails, but if you write Rails, is quite good. Gary doesn't write things the same way that most people write thin…
I really love that talk, but this is a bit of a stretch considering that it could apply to asm.js as well, which was available the year before the talk was recorded. Remember the unreal engine demo on Firefox?
Dunno what's up with the name (being silly I think) but anyway these are well done! Just watched the Malloc From Scratch one: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/mallo...
"Now let's run that, aaaaand I've made a mistake."
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personal list of favorites: Functional Core, Imperative Shell/Boundaries are two versions of the same talk. One of the best talks I have ever seen on software development, articulates some really great concepts about software design. Applicable in so many places. Sucks/Rocks series: this one is specific to Rails, but if you write Rails, is quite good. Gary doesn't write things the same way that most people write thin…
> It basically predicted WebAssembly before WebAssembly existed I really love that talk, but this is a bit of a stretch considering that it could apply to asm.js as well, which was available the year before the talk was recorded. Remember the unreal engine demo on Firefox?
(I was lucky enough to see the talk live, so the timeline of events gets a little messed up in my head sometimes...)
Not posting this to complain. I'd really like to see quality content like this reach more eyes, and I hate to see the author shoot themselves in the foot by putting up such a high barrier to access it. It's entirely possible I'm just not aware of the costs that go into creating this content.
Nice quality content, I'll definitely take advantage of the free period. The cost to sign up seems very high for what this is though. I expected a one time cost, or maybe $5 or so a month. $290 annually seems expensive for a single format of lessons from a single teacher. Even the current promotion seems onerous. As a point of comparison, Safari Books Online does sales for $199 annually just about every year and has…