# Carson Gross: The Grug Brained Developer (the book)

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Published: 2025-05-27T13:44:05+00:00
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## Resource

https://grugbrain.dev read the essay. buy the book. it's so good 00:00 Intro 01:00 What is the Grug Brained Developer? 06:13 Carson's dev cred 12:12 Web dev is hard! 13:08 The Eternal Enemy: Complexity 17:27 Saying No 19:07 Saying ok 22:28 Factoring Your Code 26:45 Testing 32:56 Agile 35:04 Refactoring 38:42 Chesterton's Fence 41:03 Microservices 45:12 Tools Type Systems 53:58 Expression Complexity 57:07 DRY 1:00:22 Separation of Concerns (SoC) 1:04:28 Closures 1:07:57 Logging 1:08:14 Concurrency 1:09:44 Optimizing 1:11:31 APIs 1:18:17 Parsing 1:19:44 The Visitor Pattern 1:19:55 Front End Development 1:22:55 Fear Of Looking Dumb 1:28:20 The Essay vs. The Book

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