Show Notes
In today's episode, we bring back BadCop! Since last episode, she joined Boot.dev's team and is now writing courses with us!
Today we will be discussing the approaches to writing good educational material, Bash (of course, duh), working outside cloud solutions, SSH, NAS systems, workflows with different editors and cultural shifts in different areas of programming. Enjoy!
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:58 BadCop Joined the Boot.dev Team!
01:15 Writing courses is harder than it looks
03:45 Lane's approach to writing courses
05:21 What's the hardest part of writing a course for BadCop?
09:01 On writing Bash
13:19 How useful is it to know how to work outside the cloud solutions?
17:28 SSHing into the home network
20:49 What is a NAS?
23:26 Using VTuber Software off the shelf
25:55 When did BadCop start using NeoVim?
29:41 IRC talk
33:20 Cultural shift in the programming space
38:05 Getter and Setter functions
42:35 People are overusing the idea of encapsulation
48:41 Dependency Inversion Principle
51:11 The VTuber Project
52:58 Where to find BadCop
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