RailsConf 2015 - Nothing is Something
RailsConf 2015 - Nothing is Something on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2016–2024.
Sandi Metz argues that hidden assumptions in code are missing concepts, and shows how to name and expose them so code is easier to understand and change. It covers null objects and messages in Ruby.
What HN commenters said
5 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
crabmusketNov 2024Strongly recommends
I'd like to mention that despite OOP being in the title, I thought this book had a lot to teach that isn't specific to OOP architecture or OOP languages. Really, I think the star of the show is TDD and refactoring. For a short intro to Sandi's style and approach, I always recommend this 35min talk: ▶ this video Aside from any specifically educational content, as a talk it is fantastic - funny, smart, well put together.
in “99 Bottles of OOP now available in Python” · View on HN
burenFeb 2016Strongly recommends
Couldn't agree more. Sandi Metz has an excellent talk touching on this topic. Developers exaggerated willingness to keep things DRY and elaborates a bit on why: it's one of the easiest things for a not-so-experienced developer to identify and one of the easiest things to teach. Edit: One of the best quotes from that talk is (paraphrased): "The wrong abstraction is a lot more expensive than duplicated code". ▶ this video
in “Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend” · View on HN
newtscamanderJan 2017Recommends
The premise is the introduction is wrong. "so before we have written a single program in our language, before we know whether shared behaviour will be important in the applications that will be written in it" read the POODR book, or watch this ▶ this video it explains how shared behavior works without code duplication and why people tend to mess it up.
in “Classes Considered Harmful [pdf]” · View on HN
ValentinTrinqueMar 2024Cites it
You do have another solution that can lower the amount of conditions: Null Objects. These don’t fit every use cases, but they can allow you to express what’s missing, or not defined, or empty, and avoid nil pointers dereference or conditions to check the state. As Sandy Metz is used to say « Nothing is Something »[0] 0: ▶ this video
in “Maybe Functions” · View on HN
profalseidolMar 2019Cites it
Here's one talk about 'message' in Ruby: RailsConf 2015 - Nothing is Something ▶ this video But to me, this simply looks like Functional Programming done in an OOP mess.
in “Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming” (2003)” · View on HN