Stuart Halloway - Narcissistic Design
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Stuart Halloway's satirical talk describes how to protect yourself from industry change by spreading complexity through systems while following idiomatic practice. It uses this inversion to catalog software design anti-patterns.
Why HN recommends it: HN commenters love it as a witty and insightful tour of design anti-patterns, applicable to DSLs, OOP and API design.
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