One Rule to Rule Them All • Pragmatic Dave Thomas • GOTO 2023

Great mind stimulative talk. I would recommend to anyone to check "Rich Hickey - Simple made easy" talk - because not all "clean code" and other programming practices are simple (to change) in the long run, but are easy (to change) in the short view.

Interesting. Uncle Bob advocates for automated tests and 100% test coverage and his name is also on the Manifesto for agile software development.

Somehow I am reminded of my ancient philosophy professor, Eric Lewis, suggesting that an interesting way to understand Plato's Meno (which discusses "Can virtue be taught?") is not that the text is inconclusive (as it would be if you read it literally) but instead shows how one can embody virtue, and hence "teach it that way". Consequently, Dave might want to encourage us to "learn agile" not by finding some coach to pay $(large_amount) to, but instead to attempt to exemplify it by absorbing (so to say) the exemplifications of others.

Best GOTO Conference to this day

I do a 100% test coverage in all 6 test environments and it works. And, indeed, i deleted 90% of the tests being 100% test covered and still hast 100% test coverage enabled, just saved some resources for testing with valgrind, callgrinnd, etc.

Old school is my way. Structured Analysis and Design and Programming

No need for training on or certification in Agile - "Understand the Agile values and then apply them" - Dave Thomas

Great talk, especially about the brain stuff! I go to volleyball games, in the front row, and at least once a game a ball comes screaming towards my seat. I noticed years ago that I don't see the ball coming, I see that my hand has already moved to block it. Dozens of times every game a ball takes a slow high arc into the crowd, and often bangs someone on the head who had all the time in the world to see it coming. With software, I work with people who must get banged in the head.

Great talk as usual from Dave. This one is a particularly interesting series of points which is a better summary of what Kent Beck was saying and some other things. There are so many juniors looking for a reference book like Clean Code or "show me a project with good code I can study" and I've always said the ultimate judge is change. This idea itself coming from someone else that I can't remember. This talk from Dave seems like a better video to share.

A company I once worked for built a brand new certified green building. To do this, they had to put in fewer bathrooms and make the paper towel dispenser dispense one small sheet at a time. I'm glad I never had to spend much time in that building. (Just a side note after watching the first few minutes of this video.)

Great insight!