drunkboxer

Can't mention Roget's Thesaurus without thinking of The Chaser.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn0ufJgtDko

It's not really possible. It's akin to saying simplify multiplying large numbers or long division. It can be sometimes done by having a heap of tricks up your sleeve, by practicing a bunch you might get better at guessing which trick to use when. The usefulness of knowing these tricks and recognising when to use them is entirely dependent on your motivations.

And exactly where the seams are

AoE could do this too by both selecting the same colour

Is there a video presentation to go along with the slides that you know of?

Yep, I have the wrong abstraction on my list as well. There's a couple on ratfactor that really hit the same point home.

I think the lwn article on "the midlayer mistake" is somewhat the same point but to a different extreme, and in some ways libraries not frameworks too.

I have a similar list I like to share, had a few from Carl's list, will probably add a few from it.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom... https://www.parsonsmatt.org/2017/10/11/type_safety_back_and_... https://lwn.net/Articles/336262/ https://tomasp.net/blog/2015/library-frameworks/ https://ratfactor.com/cards/not-quite-the-same https://matklad.github.io/2023/11/15/push-ifs-up-and-fors-do...

JIRA?

I loved every paragraph

There are in fact two instances https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBKm1MBsTbk

I don't know about you but Know Nothing November has been going extremely well for me this year.