Summary: <div> <div>Guest:</div> <div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://jezenthomas.com">Jezen Thomas</a></div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/jezenthomas">@jezenthomas</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="podcast-episode"> <div class="subtitle">Jezen Thomas talks with Dave Rael about great tools, mastering the command line, the primacy of simplicity, and geeking out about the rotation axes of the arms</div> <div class="podcast-summary"> <p>Jezen Thomas is a freelance software developer from London spending most of his time writing software with Ruby and JavaScript. He is currently working with UXPin a company which makes a browser-based UX prototyping platform using ReactJS. He enjoys all things TDD, functional programming, Vim and Unix, and he shares his thoughts by speaking at conferences, tweeting as @jezenthomas, and writing articles at http://jezenthomas.com.</p> </div> <div class="podcast-chapters"> <h6>Chapters:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="#!"> - Dave introduces the show and Jezen Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - From music to programming and how Jezen got started in software</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Jezen and Vim and becoming terminal-oriented</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Jezen's definition of value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things that "light Jezen up"</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Jezen's story of failure - tinkering for the sake of tinkering without thinking through the purpose and value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Jezen's success story - fostering social engagement by reducing the cost to communicate with a large company</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How Jezen stays current with what he needs to know</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Jezen's book recommendation</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things that have Jezen most excited</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Javascript's identity crisis</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Jezen's greatest sources of pain</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things about which Jezen likes to geek out</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Jezen's prediction for the future of software</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Jezen's top 3 tips for delivering more value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Keeping up with Jezen</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-resources"> <h6>Resources:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="http://jezenthomas.com" target="_blank">Jezen's Blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://developeronfire.com/Podcast/Episodes/arlo-belshee-refactoring-humanity" target="_blank">Arlo Belshee on Developer On Fire</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-brilliant-advice-for-anyone-running-a-business-2015-1" target="_blank">Jeff Bezos on Investing In Things that Don't Change</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/193435659X/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages - Bruce A. Tate</a></li> <li><a href="http://flowtype.org/" target="_blank">Facebook's Flow Type Checker</a></li> <li><a href="http://developeronfire.com/Podcast/Episodes/udi-dahan-understanding-and-communication" target="_blank">Udi Dahan on Developer on Fire</a></li> <li><a href="http://udidahan.com/" target="_blank">Udi Dahan - "The Software Simplist"</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/gregyoung" target="_blank">Greg Young</a></li> <li><a href="http://codebetter.com/gregyoung/2010/02/16/cqrs-task-based-uis-event-sourcing-agh/" target="_blank">Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHGkaShoyNs" target="_blank">Greg Young on CQRS and Event Sourcing</a></li> <li><a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GoldenHammer" target="_blank">The Golden Hammer</a></li> <li><a href="http://xahlee.info/kbd/keyboard_hardware_and_key_choices.html" target="_blank">History of Emacs ＆ vi Keys (Keyboard Influence on Keybinding Design)</a></li> <li><a href="http://fourhourworkweek.com/tv/" target="_blank">The Tim Ferriss Experiment</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it" target="_blank">YAGNI</a></li> <li><a href="https://vimeo.com/108441214" target="_blank">Greg Young - The art of destroying software</a></li> </ul> <h6> <span>Jezen's book recommendation</span>:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/193435659X/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages - Bruce A. Tate</a></li> </ul> <h6>Jezen's top 3 tips for delivering more value:</h6> <ol> <li>Clear and concise communication</li> <li>Don't code for the future</li> <li>Make code cheaper to write and easier to delete</li> </ol> </div> </div>
