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Making Hard Things Easy

type:: #StrangeLoop2023

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some things that feel like they should be easy and can take a long time to do some systems are complex, and the same problems repeat / redundant

wizard zines

bash

trick: use linters trick: share terrible things that computers have done

http

trick: share references

sql

trick: tell the story chronologically

hello world

dns

float.exposed

trick: look for the hidden complexity (code, computers) trick: eraser eyes -- show what you focus on trick: demo a confusing tool

share your knowledge

Write my book on programming and share it

Generally: across Rush's talk, this talk, and everything else the abstractions are bad the tools are bad we could do a much better job at abstracting this Linter is an example, but LLMs may help bridge this gap

Kunal