Opening Keynote: The Good Bad Bug: Fail Your Way to Better Code
summary
Shows concrete, repeatable practice: collect blameless reports, document everything on paper or notes, and mine them for patterns. Gives hard numbers — 64 vehicle deaths per airplane death — and real bugs that changed design: Space Invaders’ slowdown invents the difficulty curve, an aggressive cop AI spawns Grand Theft Auto, Silent Hill’s pop‑in becomes fog. Includes debuggable examples (React/Redux “cannot dispatch in the middle of a dispatch”, GET vs POST URL data) and prescribes blameless postmortems and low‑cost experiments.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:40Introduction
- 2:53Learning to Fly
- 3:44Flat Tire
- 4:33Automobile Accidents
- 6:32What is Failure
- 8:16Space Invaders
- 10:55Success vs Failure
- 12:22Street Racing
- 13:13Game Design Document
- 14:25Silent Hill
- 15:53Fog
- 16:44Aviation vs Automobile
- 18:05Avoid placing blame
- 18:37The pilot was tired
- 19:40Takeaways from failures
- 21:06Documentation
- 22:07Patterns
- 23:52Learning from failure
- 25:37Learning from failures
- 26:10Being seen as an engineer
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