Edge Cases 84: A Couple of Maxims, a Couple of Aphorisms

Andrew Pontious talks to Wolf Rentzsch about the three maxims he gleaned from Evan Doll’s interview on the Debug podcast: code is a liability, ship the right bugs, and (paraphrased) don’t impose unneeded project methodologies.

Links:

• Matt Connolly tweet: “The 6502 chip in the apple II had binary coded decimal add and subtract. @rentzsch @edgecasesshow”
• Andrew Pontious tweet: “ClickToFlash 1.5 Eddy, mentioned in Edge Cases 79: “ClickToFlash: Behind the Music”: http://edgecasesshow.com/79 pic.twitter.com/FJZSvH5CMO”
• fsn « Wikipedia
• Debug (podcast) « iMore
• Debug 26: Evan Doll on Apple and Flipboard « iMore
• Wolf Rentzsch tweet: “just wrote a two-line function. Both lines had a bug in them”
• Anna Karenina principle « Wikipedia
• Prototype-Based Programming « Edge Cases
• Weaving the Leopard’s Pelt: Simulating Fibers on OS X, by Andrew Pontious via Wayback Machine (PDF)
• Macintosh Toolbox « Wikipedia
• NSProgress « Ole Begemann
• Starting Over « Brent Simmons (inessential.com)
• You Need an MVP « Jury.me
• Albert Einstein « Wikiquote
• Reachability
• 55: Dave, Who Stinks! « Accidental Tech Podcast
• Scrummerfall « Brad Wilson via Wayback Machine
• Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility) « PragDave
• 56: The Woodpecker « Accidental Tech Podcast
• 54: goto fail; « Accidental Tech Podcast

Rejected Episode Titles:

• The Collected Wisdom of Evan Doll
• I’m Sure You Have Questions
• Division Used to Be Really Expensive
• God, Why Would I Do That?
• Code Is a Liability
• Ship the Right Bugs
• The Pinnacle of Cutting Edge Thinking
• I’m Hanging Up Right Now
• Code Leads to Bugs, Bugs Lead to Suffering
• Person or Robot or Whatever
• How Do You Freeze-Dry an Object?
• And of Course, as a Graybeard Myself…
• Up to and Including the Event Loop
• Not in Anger, No
• Single-Handedly Trying to Bring Blogs Back
• No, I’m Kidding, Don’t Do That at Home
• Not All the Sample Code Is Written by Interns
• Really Hard-Asses About Punting Bugs
• I May Be Butchering This
• Kill Your Darlings
• A Very Kind of Adult Thing
• It’s Hard to Do, but It’s a Good Idea
• I’m Successful, so Here’s What I Had for Breakfast, and You Should Have That for Breakfast
• We Have These Binary Bits
• Hence the Name of This Bloody Podcast
• What Are You Doing to Your Entities!