Scars, Bruises and Breaks — Programming in Retrospect
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A veteran programmer recounts lessons learned over many years of coding, focusing on memorable events that shaped their practice rather than language features like Java or Python syntax. The talk presents concrete, often painful experiences and how those incidents changed the speaker's approach to everyday development and long-term thinking about software.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Long-term programming
- 3:54Only a hammer
- 12:50Motivation and intent
- 16:21Programming expertise
- 21:14Art of listening
- 23:47Testing skeleton
- 29:27Thinking traps in programming
- 36:00Soft skills symmetry
- 39:32Summary & Q&A
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