Taylor Troesh joins Jerod to discuss a bevy of software development topics: yak shaves, dependency selection, -10x engineers, IKEA-oriented development, his new content-addressable programming language & much more along the way.

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Featuring:

• Taylor Troesh – GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• Taylor Town
• IKEA-Oriented Development
• 11 Ways to Shave a Yak
• How to be a -10x Engineer
• The Lindy Effect
• Crafting Interpreters
• The Unison language
• Scrapscript
• The Mother of All Demos - Wikipedia
• Opening Keynote: Greg Young - Stop Over-Engenering - YouTube
• The art of destroying software (Greg Young) - YouTube

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