Top Software Engineering Talks

Simplicity Matters:

• Simple is not easy

• Design is about pulling things apart

• Simplicity enables change

• Complexity inhibits understanding

• Simplicity equals opportunity

The Wet Codebase:

• Why strict adherence to writing code that is free of duplication (DRY) inevitably leads to software we can’t understand

All the Little Things:

• Refactoring with confidence is only possible with tests

• Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction

• Make smaller things

Deconstructing React:

• Building is learning

• Time is never wasted

• Wake up the wonder

AHA Programming:

• Avoid hasty abstraction

• Duplicate till you find the right abstraction

The Art of Code Comments:

• Comments should explain the why if necessary

• Comments should not explain what the code does if it's self-explanatory

• Samples of good and bad comments