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Ages ago, before I had any real professional experience, I was blown away by Steenberg’s demos and enamored by his tech talks. The demos still impress me and ha
by namuol 1y ago
Ages ago, before I had any real professional experience, I was blown away by Steenberg’s demos and enamored by his tech talks. The demos still impress me and have aged well, but today I’m glad I didn’t fall into the trap of taking his development advice as scripture.
His name has been popping up a lot more recently. I would be worried about the impact he might be having on young programmers, but honestly I doubt his worst advice would survive in industry anyway. I didn’t watch this particular video but his recent talk at Better Software Conference was illuminating, in a bad way.
- h4ch1 1y agoI am assuming you're talking about this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGLoKbBn-VI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGLoKbBn-VI The title is the only good thing about this talk, his whole ideology about building a WRAPPER around everything and maintaining hundreds of these wrappers is going to make you NEVER finish a single project. Also it just feels like this entire talk is an advert for C89, I do enjoy playing with the language sometimes especially when I want to scratch my software architecture itch (I use it kind of like pseudocode to develop a data model for my application), but it's simply not a silver bullet. I've been watching his screencasts on and off for a couple of years and am always slightly aghast at how he can be really spot on about some very specific things and be wildly off the mark about most of the things regarding software design/architecture. Anyway, people should finish projects, that's the most important part, my 50 weekend projects and 12 registered domains have been screaming this at me for years.