The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Lessons from 10k hours of programming (remastered) (Interview)
Thu, 17 Oct 2024
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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What's up, nerds? You're listening to The Change Law. We feature the hackers, the leaders, and the innovators leading the world of software. And this week, Jared and I are going back in time to one of our top performing shows of 2021, really of all time. And we're talking to 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 development or soft skills.
And if you count the reflections we cover on this episode and be the first to comment on this thread in Zulip, we'll give you a coupon code for a free t-shirt, a 100% free t-shirt from the merch store. Good luck. A massive thank you to our friends and our partners over at fly.io. That's the home of changelog.com. It is the public cloud for developers who ship, developers who are productive.
And that's us. That's you too. Learn more at fly.io. Okay, let's talk to Matt. Hey friends, you know we're big fans of fly.io and I'm here with Kurt Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Fly. Kurt, we've had some conversations and I've heard you say that public clouds suck. What is your personal lens into public clouds sucking and how does Fly not suck?
All right, so public clouds suck. I actually think most ways of hosting stuff on the internet sucks. And I have a lot of theories about why this is, but it almost doesn't matter. The reality is like I've built a new app for like generating sandwich recipes because my family's just into specific types of sandwiches that use Braunschweiger as a component, for example.
And then I want to like put that somewhere. You go to AWS and it's harder than just going and getting like a dedicated server from Headster. It's like, it's actually like more complicated to figure out how to deploy my dumb sandwich app on top of AWS because it's not built for me as a developer to be productive with. It's built for other people.
It's built for platform teams to kind of build the infrastructure of their dreams and hopefully create a new UX that's useful for the developers that they work with. And again, I feel like every time I talk about this, it's like I'm just too impatient. I don't particularly want to go figure so many things out purely to put my Sandwich app in front of people.
And I don't particularly want to have to go talk to a platform team once my Sandwich app becomes a huge startup and IPOs and I have to do a deploy. I kind of feel like all that stuff should just work for me without me having to go ask permission or talk to anyone else. And so this is a lot of, it's informed a lot of how we built Fly. Like we're still a public cloud.
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