Working Code Podcast - Episode 202: Um, Actually
This week on the show, Adam shakes up our usual format by organizing a game for me and Tim. Inspired by a segment that he saw on the now defunct College Humor site, Adam reads us a series of statements about web development. Most of each statement is true; but, part of each state is false. The challenge is to figure out which part of each statement is false; and how we can correct the false part to be true.
For example, if Adam were to say:
"While ColdFusion is considered one of the greatest programming languages ever created, it hasn't seen any new development in recent years."
... I would buzz-in and say:
"Um, actually it has seen new development. In fact, Adobe ColdFusion has followed a biannual release cadence over the last few years; and, with a move towards a subscription model, they are hoping to start shipping with an annual release schedule in the near future."
To be honest, at the onset of the game, I just assumed that I was going to crush Tim. After all, I code every day and he's moved into more of a management track for the past few years. It was quite humbling, however, to be neck-and-neck with Tim for most of the game-play.
For full show notes, see workingcode.dev.
Reader Comments
Ben, you left yourself wide open for this one... 😀
Um, actually, College Humor is now called Dropout.TV and Um, Actually has been in active development for some time now.
https://www.dropout.tv/um-actually
https://www.youtube.com/@umactually
@Samuel,
Um, actually, now that you say that, I think I remember Adam mentioning something. I used to see College Humor stuff, but only in random searches, so I didn't really follow the goings-on very much. I appreciate the links 🙌
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