Elegant Code and How Things Work with Andrew Snare
Beyond Coding11 Loka 2023

Elegant Code and How Things Work with Andrew Snare

Connect with Andrew Snare:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/asnare

⁠https://toot.community/@ajs⁠

https://twitter.com/asnare


Full episode on YouTube ▶️

https://youtu.be/h4O3up5m0PU

New episodes every Wednesday with our host ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙Patrick Akil⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!

Big shoutout to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Xebia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for sponsoring this episode!


OUTLINE
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:25 - Disagreeing how things work
00:03:18 - Understanding 99%
00:05:44 - Comfortably being the expert
00:06:47 - Getting used to making mistakes
00:08:26 - The ingredients to an awesome work environment
00:10:00 - Delivering high quality software
00:12:12 - Building for scale
00:13:25 - Removing components
00:15:55 - The biggest problems in modern engineering
00:18:15 - In tech, not all opinions are equal
00:20:44 - The Mythical Man-Month
00:21:52 - Understanding why
00:23:10 - Losing trust and respect
00:24:20 - Being at fault for incorrect decisions
00:26:38 - Compounding knowledge
00:28:52 - Learning different programming languages
00:29:59 - Patrick's struggle with foundational knowledge
00:32:18 - Top down vs bottom up knowledge
00:34:40 - Going a layer deeper
00:36:38 - Understanding new concepts
00:39:07 - Comparing engineering disciplines
00:41:03 - Uncharted territory
00:42:24 - Integration complexities
00:45:14 - The properties of elegance
00:48:22 - Are smart solutions elegant?
00:49:28 - Messy problems and messy solutions
00:50:58 - Making solutions too simple
00:53:50 - 3 audiences when writing code
00:56:11 - Last thoughts

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