Nobody will Train You but You
summary
Argues that on-the-job experience is a poor teacher and provides concrete, repeatable practices: memorize and rehearse detailed tutorials, let TDD reveal design flaws, and build small encapsulations so swaps are cheap. Demonstrates 40 hours memorization of a screencast, a two-line swap replacing a third-party API with zero test changes, a 15-minute structural swap from JSON API to server rendering, and a sentinel object that eliminates nil errors and speeds diagnosis.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 1:14test double
- 12:48Process can not be inferred from product any more than a pig can be inferred from a sausage. It is possible, however, for us to follow the process forward from blank page to final draft and learn something of what happens.
- 14:47Sucks Rocks Destroy All Software
- 27:09good tutorial
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