The Use of Useless Things

Not all hacks should disrupt and not all open-source projects should benefit the developer community. This talk draws on personal experience with the Python community and conversations with other people to show the value of making useless things. (Spoiler: it's something about having fun.)

This talk was given in PyCon PH 2015.

Transcript

1. Nice to see you here!
2. Useless Things (please don’t ask for your money back)
3. Chad n. chocolate-consuming, code- churning, curious creature currently codes for Kalibrr
4. shy insecure doubtful
5. passionate idealistic eager
6. “...I didn’t think anyone would be interested.”
7. “...I don’t know what idea is good enough.”
8. Billion-dollar company in the making
10. chad@pycon-ph-3:~$ python3 >>> import fun
11. Flat is better than nested. Sparse is better than dense. Readability counts.
12. less of this
13. MOAR OF THIS!
14. $ pip install -r requirements.txt
15. SQLAlchemy==1.0.5 argparse==1.2.1 html2text==3.200.3
17. My Julython 2012
18. I had fun ;)
19. Show-off Saturday
21. $ python hashpyre.py -hlocalhost -p6379 inserts. txt Parsed the arguments manually. Oh no!
22. Mark Steve Samson commented Check out argparse or optparse :)
23. Dumb experiments can teach you smart ideas
24. suckin’ at somethin’ is the first step towards bein’ sorta good at somethin’
25. Passion will make you more money and make you exponentially more attractive™.
26. Passion means making mistakes. Lots of it, in fact.
27. What now?
28. Share
29. Document
30. Teach
31. shy insecure doubtful passionate idealistic eager
32. I went to meet- ups! <3