Lessons from 10k hours of programming (Remastered) (Interview)

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This week we’re going back in time to one of our top performing shows of all time where we talk with Matt Rickard about his blog post Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming. These reflections are about deliberately writing code for 10,000 hours. Most don’t apply to beginners. He was clear to mention that these reflections are purely about coding, not career advice or soft skills. If you count the reflections we cover on the show and be the first to comment the amount of reflections on this thread in Zulip, we’ll give you a coupon code to use for a 100% free t-shirt from the merch store. Good luck…

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Featuring:

• Matt Rickard – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming
• Heptagon of Configuration
• Linux Kernel Docs on commenting
• Ahmad Nassri on JS Party
• Todo or Die - Python Edition

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1. This week on The Changelog (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Fly.io (00:01:33)

https://fly.io/

3. Start the show! (00:05:05)

4. What is 10,000 hours? (00:06:32)

5. Learn from others experience (00:08:28)

6. Get a free t-shirt (00:09:13)

7. Heptagon of configuration (00:10:09)

8. Iteration is necessary (00:13:23)

9. So DRY (00:16:06)

10. Jerod on Gophers Say (00:21:37)

11. Code comments (00:23:11)

12. Sponsor: Socket (00:27:54)

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13. Stackoverflow is a must (00:34:06)

14. Learning Go (00:40:53)

15. Jerod provokes Adam (00:43:49)

16. Others code? (00:44:54)

17. Proven ground (00:48:36)

18. Write code only you can write (00:50:41)

19. Sponsor: AssemblyAI (00:54:15)

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20. Sponsor: Wix (00:56:32)

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21. Most code is terrible. Delete! (00:57:27)

22. Identity as Code (00:59:37)

23. How do you organize? (01:03:28)

24. Naming is fun! (01:08:03)

25. When there's no convention (01:12:58)

26. Technology as diffusion (01:14:27)

27. Is that it? (01:20:20)

28. Closing thoughts and stuff (01:21:11)