Culture And Aesthetic Revisited

This document summarizes Adam Keys' presentation "Six Easy Pieces (Twice Over)", where he discusses important concepts for software developers based on Richard Feynman's lectures. The presentation is divided into two acts, where the first act from 2006 introduced non-syntactic aspects of Ruby and Rails, and the second act extracts the most important bits and argues they are applicable to all programmers. The concepts discussed include that programming should not suck, languages should make developers feel clever and powerful, the importance of building software with a balance of top-down and bottom-up approaches, keeping things simple, avoiding duplication, using testing as feedback, and how other languages can be borrowed from to write better code.