14: You are NOT Google

Wolf surfaces five fundamentals to becoming a better developer (that you probably didn’t even know you didn’t know)! This is a fiery one! Jim asks questions, and also questions Wolf's choices.

Takeaways

• The problem comes first—ask more questions
• Start with the simplest thing that could reasonably work
• Measure before you optimize (but don’t be stupid)
• Understand what’s actually an error
• Test so you can evolve, and so that you don’t waste time, money, and effort

Links

Solution from Marlon for Jim's problem of maximizing a terminal window vertically

https://github.com/Runtime-Arguments/MaximizeVertically

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Dawn by nuer self, from the album Digital Sky