Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Apologies for the missing audio at the start.
There are many ways to solve a problem, some better than others: copy from StackOverflow, use a popular library, callbacks, promises, goroutines, meta programming, queue, regexes, and so on. But there’s one dumb approach that keeps ending up as the better solution in many situations: plain values.
Chew Choon Keat (@choonkeat) is the Head of Engineering at Hobnob. He started the Singapore Ruby Brigade, worked at Slideshare, believes strongly in and contributes to open source. Now available in Elm.
Visit https://geekcamp.sg for more information about GeekcampSG
Apologies for the missing audio at the start.
There are many ways to solve a problem, some better than others: copy from StackOverflow, use a popular library, callbacks, promises, goroutines, meta programming, queue, regexes, and so on. But there’s one dumb approach that keeps ending up as the better solution in many situations: plain values.
Chew Choon Keat (@choonkeat) is the Head of Engineering at Hobnob. He started the Singapore Ruby Brigade, worked at Slideshare, believes strongly in and contributes to open source. Now available in Elm.
Visit https://geekcamp.sg for more information about GeekcampSG
