Don't Clean Code! with Creator of HTMX

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📘 Carson’s book: https://hypermedia.systems
🧠 Grug Brained Dev: https://grugbrain.dev

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro & chaos before the call
1:45 Meet Carson Gross (HTMX creator & professor)
3:29 What is "Coding Dirty"?
5:12 Why Carson hates small methods
7:24 The myth of clean code and method size
10:06 What the data actually says about long functions
13:11 Why abstraction is not free
15:06 Long vs short functions: maintainability & changeability
18:00 Why small functions make debugging harder
21:34 Beautiful at any size: the case for fat functions
24:19 The myth of good naming solving complexity
26:55 TDD, unit tests, and when they help vs hurt
35:39 End-to-end testing: the good, the bad, the bloated
43:23 Meme culture, cringe, and developer humor