Tim Ewald - Clojure: Programming with Hand Tools

Why it was recommended

I loved this talk on how as your tooling becomes more complex and automated, you start to lose sight of simpler solutions to problems.

Recommendationaidos · Original2018-10

What it covers

Tim Ewald's Clojure/conj talk uses furniture making with hand tools versus machine tools as an allegory for software. It explores how automation changes what we make and how. It is for a general viewer who does not plan to take a prerequisite first.

Video details

Channel

ClojureTV

Length

58 min 39 sec

Year

2014

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