Edge Cases

The Culture Didn't Change First

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about technical culture: how various technologies are associated with beliefs and their priorities. Examples include Linux, Perl, Python, the Web, and of course Apple and Swift.

Links:

• C4 (conference)
• This Is Water « Wikipedia
• There’s more than one way to do it « Wikipedia
• PEP 20 — The Zen of Python « Python Programming Language Legacy Website
• I’m done with the web « The Crazy One
• Fillers and Spillers « Edge Cases
• Instantiating Classes by Name in Swift « Michael Tsai
• Debug 11: Don Melton and Safari « iMore

Rejected Episode Titles:

• You’re Playing the Long Game
• “Look at Me, I’m Reading Literature!”
• We’re the Fish, in the Water
• I Like Your Facets
• Your Name Personally Butchered by Me
• I’ll Go with That, Pedant
• A Framework ‘Du Jour’
• They’re Quantum Microlibraries
• You’re Going to Get Vtables for Everything
• One Line of Swift Code
• Worried About Your Icon Wiggling a Certain Way
• The Uptake Will Be Pretty Rapid
• Versus the Graybeards
• Lack of Real Software Discipline
• A Good Injection for Our Culture
• Some Cocoa Guys Writing a Web Framework
• Cut off in a Backwater
• Apple Is Still Thinking Like an Objective-C Company
• A Funny Little Tweet About It
• I Don’t Think You Can Bolt It on Later
• An Incoherent Language Which Has More Features That I Like