Don't make things worse! (Interview)

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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Featuring:

• Taylor Troesh – GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• Taylor Town
• IKEA-Oriented Development
• 11 Ways to Shave a Yak
• How to be a -10x Engineer
• The Lindy Effect
• Crafting Interpreters
• The Unison language
• Scrapscript
• The Mother of All Demos - Wikipedia
• Opening Keynote: Greg Young - Stop Over-Engenering - YouTube
• The art of destroying software (Greg Young) - YouTube

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Timestamps:

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