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A reflection on my code journey at The Iron Yard, relative to the ideas in this article: http://firstround.com/review/shims-jigs-and-other-woodworking-concepts-to-conquer-technical-debt/
During the first week of our cohort, we were tasked with watching a video recording of a talk by Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure, on the idea that Simple isn’t Easy. At first glance at the title I thought to myself that perhaps this was similar to design theory (and to an extent it is) but in…
I’d say day two went well, with one caveat — If there is material to read, READ IT!
While it seems painful at first to read something about what you are learning, especially if you feel like you’ve seen this kind of stuff before and think that you have some…
Wow — Day 1 complete! How exciting!?
I’ll admit; as much as I wanted to tell myself I was ready, I’m humbled by the amount of content that we covered today. The assignment — Build an ugly webpage — was challenging to say the least.