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| Making Hard Things Easy (jvns.ca) | ||
| recommended by 2 users | 2023 | 3 points by hasheddan | learning to code | original thread | | ||
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| herbertl Oct 6, 2023 | on: Turn your conference talk into a blog post | context |
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asalahli Oct 20, 2023 | on: Write More "Useless" Software | context
There was a talk by Julia Evans recently shared here on HN[0]. A great talk overall, but I particularly liked this bit about "best practices" which I think describes the issue beautifully. > One way I see people kind of trying to share terrible things that their computers have done to them is by sharing "best practices". But I really love to hear the stories behind the best practices! If someone has a strong opinion like "nobody should ever use bash", I want to hear about the story! What did bash do to you? I need to know. The reason I prefer stories to best practices is if I know the story about how the bash hurt you, I can take that information and decide for myself how I want to proceed. Maybe I feel like -- the computer did that to you? That's okay, I can deal with that problem, I don't mind. Or I might instead feel like "oh no, I'm going to do the best practice you recommended, because I do not want that thing to happen to me". TLDR (by me): Don't share best practices, share your experience and let others draw their own conclusions from that. |
LLM summaries could make for a good starting point! I just saw this post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37791002) on the front page and loved what Julia Evans did with the slides and accompanying text (https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/10/06/new-talk--making-hard-things...).