Top 3 Lessons (Re)Learned from Making My Chicken Defense Microgame

In this video you'll hear about my top 3 lessons learned and re-learned from making my free and open source microgame: Chicken Defense. You've probably heard some of these before, but somehow I'm still re-learning them even after writing code for over 20 years!
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⚫ Hofstadter's law (everything takes longer than you think): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstad...
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⚫ KISS Principle: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_pr...
⚫ YAGNI Principle: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_are...
⚫ FizzBuzz EE: github.com/EnterpriseQualityC...
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Chapters:
00:00 Topic Introduction
00:35 Lesson 1
02:45 Lesson 2
04:54 Lesson 3
06:54 Closing Thoughts & Support LlamAcademy

[@legendarybanditmb]

doing these kinds of "post-mortems" are SO helpful! it's kind of like Step -1 for whatever your next project is. The cycle continues! :)

[@WarspawnOG]

oh yes... everything always takes longer than you think comes up constantly. the full spectrum from "oh this project will take 3 months (1 year)" to "fixing this bug will take me 15 minutes (4 hours)"

[@LlamAcademy]

😆 that “fixing this bug” is me SO many times!