02:42 – JS Remote Conf
03:11 – Michel Martens Introduction
05:15 – Getting Others to Contribute to Functionality
06:33 – Simplicity of a Tool
- Outside and Inside
07:34 – Is a Tool Ever Finished?
09:50 – Popularity vs Adoption
10:23 – Complex vs Simple Tools & Libraries
- Rails
- Padrino
- Sinatra
- Glory and Heroes
- Keeping Individual Things Simple
- “Cool Lifts” Complexity Introduced by Enthusiasm
25:56 – Keeping Libraries from Getting Overwhelmed by “Cool Lifts”
27:11 – Simple Data Types and Other Languages Philosophies
28:52 – Ruby and Lisp
33:04 – Monkey Patching
36:47 – Why Michel Works in Ruby
37:58 – Finding the “Right” Level of Complexity
- Queue Implementation
42:06 – Using the Session Directly / Setting the Flash Variable
- Rich Hickey
- OO vs FP People (Object-Oriented vs Functional Programming)
45:27 – Monkey Patching (Cont’d)
- aka “Extensions”
- Refinements
Book Club
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