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253 - Dave Thomas, Author of The Pragmatic Programmer and Sin City Ruby 2025 Keynote Speaker
Manage episode 473945147 series 3232044
In this podcast episode I talk with Dave Thomas, co-author of The Pragmatic Programmer and Sin City Ruby 2025 keynote speaker, who discusses his upcoming book Simplicity and how software development has become unnecessarily complex. Dave and I explore how developers can regain control by questioning established practices, trusting their intuition when code feels overly complicated, and experimenting with simpler approaches rather than blindly following industry trends.
Chapters
1. 253 - Dave Thomas, Author of The Pragmatic Programmer and Sin City Ruby 2025 Keynote Speaker (00:00:00)
2. Life After the Pandemic (00:00:58)
3. Sin City Ruby 2025 Announcement (00:03:27)
4. Dave Thomas's Ruby Journey (00:03:54)
5. The Agile Manifesto and Its Values (00:07:40)
6. Testing Programming Principles (00:14:06)
7. Reality and Knowledge Exploration (00:19:24)
8. Developing Intuition in Programming (00:40:21)
9. Simplicity: Dave's New Book (00:54:16)
10. The Pragmatic Programmer Legacy (01:14:06)
11. Episode Conclusion (01:27:03)
261 episodes
Manage episode 473945147 series 3232044
In this podcast episode I talk with Dave Thomas, co-author of The Pragmatic Programmer and Sin City Ruby 2025 keynote speaker, who discusses his upcoming book Simplicity and how software development has become unnecessarily complex. Dave and I explore how developers can regain control by questioning established practices, trusting their intuition when code feels overly complicated, and experimenting with simpler approaches rather than blindly following industry trends.
Chapters
1. 253 - Dave Thomas, Author of The Pragmatic Programmer and Sin City Ruby 2025 Keynote Speaker (00:00:00)
2. Life After the Pandemic (00:00:58)
3. Sin City Ruby 2025 Announcement (00:03:27)
4. Dave Thomas's Ruby Journey (00:03:54)
5. The Agile Manifesto and Its Values (00:07:40)
6. Testing Programming Principles (00:14:06)
7. Reality and Knowledge Exploration (00:19:24)
8. Developing Intuition in Programming (00:40:21)
9. Simplicity: Dave's New Book (00:54:16)
10. The Pragmatic Programmer Legacy (01:14:06)
11. Episode Conclusion (01:27:03)
261 episodes
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1 257 - Colleen Schnettler, Creator of HelloQuery 1:03:01

1 256 - Dave Farley, Author of Modern Software Engineering 1:08:49

1 255 - Ghost Engineers with Yegor Denisov-Blanch and Simon Obstbaum 56:58

1 254 - Amanda Perino, Executive Director of The Rails Foundation 1:12:28

1 253 - Dave Thomas, Author of The Pragmatic Programmer and Sin City Ruby 2025 Keynote Speaker 1:27:12

1 252 - What is Good Code? with Jerad Gallinger 1:10:10

1 251 - Databases at Scale with Prarthana Shiva, Sin City Ruby 2025 Speaker 45:08


1 249 - Neeraj Singh, Founder and CEO of BigBinary and Neeto 56:20


1 247 - Steven R. Baker, Creator of RSpec 1:40:44

1 245 - Irina Nazarova, CEO of Evil Martians and Sin City Ruby 2025 Speaker 1:24:14

1 244 - Jeff Dwyer, Founder & CEO at Prefab 1:02:38

1 243 - Johanna Rothman, Author and Consultant 1:17:52


1 241 - Freedom Dumlao, Sin City Ruby 2025 Speaker 1:03:04

1 240 - JP Camara, Principal Software Engineer at Wealthbox 1:06:34

1 239 - Artur Trzop, Co-Founder & COO of Knapsack Pro 54:56


1 238 - Will Carey, CTO of Brand New Box 1:09:01

1 237 - Adarsh Pandit, Executive Director of Ruby Central 57:26

1 233 - Joel Hawksley, Staff Engineer at GitHub 1:02:10

1 232 - Allison McMillan, Fractional VP of Engineering & Leadership Consultant 53:42

1 231 - Matt Kirkland, Founder and Designer at Brand New Box 51:18

1 230 - Nate Clark, founder of Brand New Box 1:03:37

1 229 - Test Driven Design with Alex Bunardzic 1:24:16

1 228 - Flaky Tests with Alan Ridlehoover and Fito von Zastrow 1:04:49
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