Cocoa Culture Episode and more
Hello CoRecursive newsletter subscriber,
It's December now, and I have a new episode out here:
This episode started with a question: Why are some groups so much better at some things than others? It's a big question with many possible answers, but one answer that doesn't help is "culture".
Looking at two groups of developers and saying one has a broken culture doesn't explain anything. It's a mysterious answer. I want something more specific. So when I learned that Hansen Hsu, curator at the computer history museum, spent years studying developer communities for his Ph.D., I had to talk to him.
The story he shared in the episode is fascinating. While it didn't answer all my questions about culture, it did give me a better understanding of how people, specifically iOS devs, are indoctrinated into a group of shared values.
On the 15th, I'll be releasing a bonus chat with Hansen for my Patreon supporters, covering his time working at Apple and his thoughts on how the language Swift changed the Apple independent developer community.
Other Content
I've written a short article about a simple little tool that helps me work with CSV files at the command line and how I used property-based testing to test it. I've also written another bash tutorial.
Also, the bonus episode with Joey Hess is out on Patreon and contains the story of Joey building an off-grid fridge using water as a battery and controlling the whole thing with FRP Haskell.
Thanks,
Adam
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