"I Love Deleting Code, and No One Can Stop Me" by Steven Hazel - Nerd Nite Austin 160, July 2024 

480p in 2024. I mean its enough but rare to see nowadays.

1. Letting Go of Commented Code "And I took that personally."

This guy is my hero

i really like this. when i'm writing a new function i like to write it out pretty openly with many variables for each step. once i get it to work i might have declared 10 new variables in that function alone, so that i can debug them. once that i know that the function works as expected and no obvious edge case bugs, i go through it and remove all variables that are just used once or twice and the allocating cost is likely more expensive than to do the part twice. shortening the code down really helps with readability and it helps in the naming cludder. it is easier to name 5 variables with a clear use than 10 that are half steps of an use.

Agree with 99%. Dependency inversion is the a rare exception to having more code than necessary. Don't delete your interfaces.

This is so true. We often go into a rabbit hole of complexity. We think that understanding complexity is smart, but often the complexity itself is unnecessary.

Software is an asset. Code is a liability.

I didn’t know that there are professional code janitors ^^D Awesome for code that’s goin to be looked at by more then 3 people.

I feel oddly vindicated; I've been doing exactly this in my job without anyone telling me I should do it, and while having so much less experience than Mr. Hazel here

I love deleting complementary stuff and regular backups can stop me from doing that.

Refactoring helps projects. You just need to do it properly, following rules. I often learned that shorter code is better, including minimizing interfaces. I just recently unified two interfaces in my ui lib lui and the resulting interface is nicer AND the result file is smaller than before. 😊 In many cases, it feels like the minimal solution already exists and we just need to discover it out of a mess.

this is an awesome talk with some of the worst questions I've ever heard. they clearly have never programmed in their life.

Very interesting talk

I love it.. if yoi really want to see it just look at version control

Don’t let this man loose in your house. He’ll demo your bonus room and nook. I kid I kid. LOVE this topic. I’ll be preaching this with new found fervor.

Good presentation!

4:3 in 2024... I mean.. respect.. Has old school vibe

This was great

Thanks for the great video. In minute 8:22 you say that shortening the name is not a good move, but before in 8:07 you say long names are also not ok - so what do you suggest then?

What about doc comments and examples?

I pity whoever uses dynamically typed languages

Haven't watched the video, liked for the title 👍