Tudor Girba is the CEO of feenk, a company focused on modernizing legacy systems. They do that through Moldable Development, a way of programming through contextual tools. They build Glamorous Toolkit, a free and open-source moldable development environment, to show how working through thousands of contextual tools per system can be practical and useful.
The most expensive programming activity is not producing code. It’s trying to make sense of it to decide what to do next. This is particularly visible in a legacy environment. The problem is not the amount of time we spend figuring systems out. The problem is how we spend that time.In this talk we introduce and exemplify a way of programming that optimizes how we read our systems through contextua...