Programming’s Greatest Mistakes • Mark Rendle • GOTO 2023

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2023. #GOTOcon #GOTOams Mark Rendle - Creator of Visual ReCode with 7 Microsoft MVP Awards & 30 Years of Experience Building Software @MarkRendle RESOURCES ABSTRACT Most of the time when we make mistakes in our code, a message gets displayed wrong or an invoice doesn’t get sent. But sometimes when people make mistakes in code, things literally explode, or bankrupt companies, or make web development a living hell for millions of programmers for years to come. Join Mark on a tour through some of the worst mistakes in the history of programming. Learn what went wrong, why it went wrong, how much it cost, and how things are really funny when they’re not happening to you. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 01:35 The med file unf*cker 05:51 Y2K 14:39 The Kennel club “Dog 38“ bug 17:00 EnTErpRIsE 20:43 The Pentium FPU 23:45 NULL 26:43 Hartford Center 29:20 Knight Capital 35:32 Mariner 1 38:11 Mars Climate Orbiter 40:25 Ariane 5 42:01 The big rewrite 43:57 JavaScript 49:39 The Soviet early warning system 51:07 Outro Read the full abstract here: RECOMMENDED BOOKS Tomasz Lelek & Jon Skeet • Software Mistakes & Tradeoffs • Henney & Monson-Haefel • 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know • Merih Taze • Engineers Survival Guide • #ProgrammingMistakes #Programming #SoftwareEngineering #WorstMistakes #MarkRendle #Linebreakers #ALGOL #MarsClimateOrbiter #NULL #PentiumFPU #Ariane5 #Y2K #Mariner1 Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at Sign up for updates and specials at SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily.