Gaurav Dadhania GVRV

Rich Hickey on becoming a better developer

Rich Hickey • 3 years ago

Sorry, I have to disagree with the entire premise here.

A wide variety of experiences might lead to well-roundedness, but not to greatness, nor even goodness. By constantly switching from one thing to another you are always reaching above your comfort zone, yes, but doing so by resetting your skill and knowledge level to zero.

Mastery comes from a combination of at least several of the following:

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
- Who is going to use it?
- How are they going to use it?

FFmpeg cheat sheet

A list of useful commands for the FFmpeg command line tool.

Download FFmpeg: https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html

Full documentation: https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html

Basic conversion

Moved to Shopify/graphql-design-tutorial

This is a plain-text version of Bret Victor’s reading list. It was requested by hf on Hacker News.

Highly recommended things!

This is my five-star list. These are my favorite things in all the world.

A few of these works have had an extraordinary effect on my life or way of thinking. They get a sixth star. ★

JavaScript File Format Differences

There's the pervarsive notion that all JS is created equal and that there's only minor and easily detectable differences between the various file formats used to author JavaScript. This is correct, from a certain point of view.

For many people writing JavaScript that gets passed into build tools,

Let's Destroy C

I have a pet project I work on, every now and then. CNoEvil.

The concept is simple enough.

What if, for a moment, we forgot all the rules we know. That we ignore every good idea, and accept all the terrible ones. That nothing is off limits. Can we turn C into a new language? Can we do what Lisp and Forth let the over-eager programmer do, but in C?

	worker_processes 1;

	events {
	worker_connections 1024;
	}

	http {
	include mime.types;
	default_type application/octet-stream;

-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# based on https://gist.github.com/schacon/942899
-# list
-git branch -r --merged | grep origin | grep -v '>' | grep -v master\* | grep -v release-\*  | xargs -L1
-# delete
-git branch -r --merged | grep origin | grep -v '>' | grep -v master\* | grep -v release-\*  | xargs -L1 | awk '{sub(/origin\//,"");print}' | xargs git push origin --delete

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	git branch \| grep -v (git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD) \| xargs git branch -D