We built this city... The geographies of software development
summary
Argues that codebases evolve like cities and supports that claim with concrete parallels: a 1700‑year gap between Roman mosaic and The Shard, a Formula One fantasy league website built to learn PHP, and references to Stevenage (1946 ≈ 80 years). Uses objective tools — lines of code counts, function complexity, static analysis and code coverage — plus a Google Form survey (very small sample) to produce a list of developer code-based life concerns and point to issues like dead code in the Legacy Town.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Start
- 16:06Quality of Life in a City
- 20:12Quality of Life in a Codebase
- 24:29Developer/Codebase Life Concerns
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