Official Description: [N/A: I did not provide a description.] Actual Description: History is good!!! Yay history Talk is here. Slides are here. Sources I referenced a bunch of sources in my talk. These are links so you can read them yourself: Sources on the history of SOLID included Robert Martin’s original 11 commandments and “Principles of OOD”. Picture of RCM by Tim-bezhashvyly. Shown books were Clean Code, Clean Architecture, and Agile Software Development.| Hillel Wayne
Last month I researched two historical questions. I originally posted summaries on Twitter and am reproducing both here.1 Why Vim Uses hjkl Question: Why does Vim use hjkl and not the arrow keys for navigation? Common Explanation: It keeps your fingers on the home row. Historical Explanation: Bill Joy developed vi on the ADM-3A, which didn’t have dedicated arrow keys. If you look at the ADM keyboard, it put the arrow keys on the hjkl keys.| Hillel Wayne
I love science. Not the “space is beautiful” faux-science, but the process of doing science. Hours spent calibrating equipment, cross-checking cites of cites of cites, tedious arguments about p-values and prediction intervals, all the stuff that makes science Go. And, when it does happen, the drama. I also want us to use more empirical science in software. That’s why I wrote a talk on it! One thing lay folk don’t realize is that science is social.| Hillel Wayne