(Guitar) Strings Attached: From UTF-8 to EADGBE • Hannes Lowette • GOTO 2023
This presentation was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2023. #GOTOcon #GOTOams
Hannes Lowette - Head of Learning & Development at Axxes, Monolith Advocate, Speaker & Whiskey Lover @Belenar82
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ABSTRACT
EADGBE, in case you wondered, is the standard tuning for guitar strings. There are many things that pulled me into building guitars about a decade ago. And the more guitars I build, the more I realize that the reasons I like building guitars are pretty similar to what I enjoy about developing software.
Have you ever wondered what goes into building a custom electric guitar? What physics and electronics are involved? And what makes a guitar great? And what myths still float around in the guitar world? I’ll tell you all about it in this talk.
Prepare for a session with plenty of geeky topics, physics, woodworking and analogies between the worlds of luthiery and software craftsmanship. [...]
TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
00:43 Why is a software dev. building guitars?
05:17 Craftsmanship
13:29 Technical bits
24:15 Myths
33:01 Irreversibility
43:15 Outro
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David Farley • Modern Software Engineering •
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