Workshop: Writing Simple Code

There are many books and resources available to help you write more robust and maintainable code, yet many of these often fall short when tried in practice. Can we do better?

In this workshop, I will show why a lot of available advice on how to write better code does not work as intended in practice. I will then proceed to show some underlying principles we can use to evaluate our own code as we write it.

Our code should be as simple as possible, avoiding patterns and boilerplate, and focus on real-world maintainability, cognitive complexity, and performance.