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Stuart Halloway - Narcissistic Design
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Stuart Halloway's satirical talk describes how to protect yourself from industry change by spreading complexity through systems while following idiomatic practice. It uses this inversion to catalog software design anti-patterns.
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HN commenters love it as a witty and insightful tour of design anti-patterns, applicable to DSLs, OOP and API design.
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Along a similar line, I love Stuart Halloway's talk on Narcissistic Design - [VIDEO] Prefer APIs over data. Start with DSLs. Always connect (and never enqueue). Create abstractions for information. Use static typing across subsystem boundaries. Put language semantics on the wire. Write lots of unit tests. Leverage context. Update information in place.
Read original comment ↗Reading some of the comments here reminded me of a great talk by Stuart Halloway called Narcissistic Design.[1] [1] [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Nobody seems to have posted Stuart Halloway's Narcissistic Design yet, so I'll just leave this here. [VIDEO] Has some great insights and quips. "Nothing says 'screw you' like a DSL"
Read original comment ↗[VIDEO] This talk goes into many anti-patterns, but he gets to the real problem with SQL, that it is ONLY a DSL and lacks either an API or a fundamental information model to program against. Composability when working with a DSL is a nightmare. I also have been moving away from ORM to directly writing SQL, but lets be honest about the reasons that programmers are wary of working directly with SQL as they are legitimate issues.
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