Carson Gross: The Grug Brained Developer (the book)
May 27, 2025•1 hr 30 min
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Episode description
https://grugbrain.dev
read the essay.
buy the book.
it's so good
00:00 Intro
01:00 What is the Grug Brained Developer?
06:13 Carson's dev cred
12:12 Web dev is hard!
13:08 The Eternal Enemy: Complexity
17:27 Saying No
19:07 Saying ok
22:28 Factoring Your Code
26:45 Testing
32:56 Agile
35:04 Refactoring
38:42 Chesterton's Fence
41:03 Microservices
45:12 Tools
Type Systems
53:58 Expression Complexity
57:07 DRY
1:00:22 Separation of Concerns (SoC)
1:04:28 Closures
1:07:57 Logging
1:08:14 Concurrency
1:09:44 Optimizing
1:11:31 APIs
1:18:17 Parsing
1:19:44 The Visitor Pattern
1:19:55 Front End Development
1:22:55 Fear Of Looking Dumb
1:28:20 The Essay vs. The Book
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