This week's video for Dave Farley's Continuous Delivery YouTube channel is me ranting about why reading code sucks, and offering some advice on how to improve.
"Every programmer occasionally, when nobody’s home, turns off the lights, pours a glass of scotch, puts on some light German electronica, and opens up a file on their computer. They read over the lines, and weep at their beauty…."
https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
The original idea for this video is from my presentation Reading Code Is Harder Than Writing It, which I only got to present twice. I feel like I never quite got the hang of what I was trying to say in the talk, but honestly that's normal for any presentation I've given less than three times.
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