Simplicity

How principles impact my work, selection of tools and code that I write. This talk is a work-in-progress for me as well, but I believe it is way too easy for us to use new frameworks and tools only for the sake of using them. This talk won't answer all your questions but it may help you look at things in a different way.

Transcript

1. Simplicity @krzychukula
2. 1. Simple 2. Principles and Ideas 3. Tools and Code
3. Do you like …?
4. Simple vs Easy
5. Simple == One Thing
6. Easy == Familiar
7. Simple Complex
8. Easy Hard
9. Simple Complex Easy Hard
10. Simple Complex Easy Hard
11. Simple Complex Easy function Hard
12. Simple Complex Easy Hard
13. Simple Complex Easy Hard Physics
14. Simple Complex Easy Hard
15. angular-typescript-react-babel-boilerplate
17. angular-typescript-react-babel-boilerplate
18. Simple Complex Easy boilerplate Hard
19. Simple Complex Easy Hard
20. Simple Complex Easy Hard FP
21. Simple Complex Easy function boilerplate Hard FP Physics
22. 2. Principles and Ideas
23. Avoid Magic
24. Avoid GWT
25. Avoid Zone.js
26. Obscure Spells
27. Avoid DI Frameworks
29. Magic has Costs
30. Innovation Tokens
31. Choose Boring Technology Dan McKinley
32. One Innovation Token
33. CV
34. CVDD
35. CV Driven Development
36. Sunk Cost Fallacy
37. The Law of the Instrument
38. If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Abraham Maslow, 1966
39. If the only tool you have is a RX.hammer, everything looks like a stream. Krzysztof Kula, 2016
40. If the only tool you have is a Angular, everything looks like a directive. Krzysztof Kula, 2016
41. If the only tool you have is a React, everything looks like a component. Krzysztof Kula, 2016
42. Framework Developers
44. “Our strategy around recruiting is to find the best and brightest engineers. We don’t bring them in specifically because the engineer knows Erlang,” Jamshid Mahdavi
45. “Our strategy around recruiting is to find the best and brightest engineers. We don’t bring them in specifically because the engineer knows Erlang,” Jamshid Mahdavi
46. “Our strategy around recruiting is to find the best and brightest engineers. We don’t bring them in specifically because the engineer knows Erlang,” Jamshid Mahdavi
47. WhatsApp now has 900 million monthly active users.
48. ~50 engineers
50. Learn New Things
51. Surgeon
52. scalpel-chainsaw-boilerplate
53. Checks
54. First, do no harm
55. Self Contained Systems
56. Progressive Enhancement
57. Surgeon
58. 3. Tools and Code
59. 1. Editor 2. Code Style 3. Builds 4. Libraries 5. this 6. DI
60. Editor
61. Learn C The Hard Way
63. THE RULES 15 min HTML/CSS No previews
64. Editor
65. JavaScript Standard Code Style
67. It just works.
69. Builds
70. npm install -g webpack
71. npm install -g webpack
72. npm install npm start
73. Self Contained Systems
74. <script src=”//cdnjs…
75. thisless
76. You Don’t Know JS Kyle Simpson
77. function
78. DI Without Magic
79. function (config) {
80. Most Important
81. Avoid Magic
82. Learn New Things
83. Be Like a Surgeon
84. Thanks! @krzychukula
85. We’re Hiring! SmartRecruiters
86. Questions?
87. • Web dev in 2016: https://twitter.com/iamdevloper/status/694198210894520320 • You could be better: https://twitter.com/andrestaltz/status/698958921717964800 • Simple Made Easy by Rich Hickey: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy • Beyond Features by Dan North: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz5HBtDl-1A • Choose Boring Technology by Dan McKinley: http://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology • Law of the Instrument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument • http://codeinthedark.com/ • http://standardjs.com/ • XKCD Standards: https://xkcd.com/927/ • You Don’t Know JS by Kyle Simpson: https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS • 8 Lines of Code by Greg Young: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/8-lines-code-refactoring