It’s People! Code is made out of people!
summary
Argues that the hard part of software is people, not languages, and backs it with concrete examples: a tiny Go wing it function used onstage, commissioning illustrator Andy to produce an elephant, mushroom‑cloud and DV8 mascot set that reshapes the message, a pragmatic fix converting synchronous chained web services to a file‑based async pipeline, and the Boeing 737 MAX MCAS failure (346 deaths) as a caution about optional sensors and brittle shortcuts. Recommends ritualised raise elephants slots and asynchronous thought toast interruptions to surface real problems.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:40Sad lines
- 5:55The weird function
- 8:22Projectors
- 10:25Illustration
- 12:22Elephant in the room
- 14:49Is this elephant grainy
- 17:12Is this elephant grey
- 19:18Why we ignore elephants
- 21:00The elephant in the room
- 25:32Team people
- 31:40People
- 36:05Idiot Client
- 39:05As dv8
- 42:05Elephant
- 46:40ADA
- 55:55Legacy decision
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