Stuart Halloway - Narcissistic Design

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters love it as a witty and insightful tour of design anti-patterns, applicable to DSLs, OOP and API design.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Reaktor

Topic

software design anti-patterns

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2021

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Along a similar line, I love Stuart Halloway's talk on Narcissistic Design - [VIDEO] Prefer APIs over data. Start with DSLs. Always connect (and never enqueue). Create abstractions for information. Use static typing across subsystem boundaries. Put language semantics on the wire. Write lots of …

• Reading some of the comments here reminded me of a great talk by Stuart Halloway called Narcissistic Design.[1] [1] [VIDEO]

• Nobody seems to have posted Stuart Halloway's Narcissistic Design yet, so I'll just leave this here. [VIDEO] Has some great insights and quips. "Nothing says 'screw you' like a DSL"