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# Intentional Code - Minimalism in a World of Dogmatic Design


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 18, 2024
- **Time:** 15:30–16:00 (30 min)
- **Room:** STAGE 4 (500)
- **Event:** World Congress 2024

## Description

A brief history of Design in software, reflecting on the history of the design patterns movement, clean code, and the long shadow they have cast over software development in the 2010s and beyond.

In this session we'll talk about intentionality in software design - and how you can radically simplify the way you build applications today to make them more meaningful to the humans that maintain them.

A radical look into why *every single character matters*, and why you should probably burn your copies of Clean Code.

## Speaker

### [David Whitney](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@david-whitney)

Converting rum into code


## Related talks at this congress

- [Identifying code smells](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/166-identifying-code) — Benjamin Bischoff
- [Atomic Design - Frontend's Clean Architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/279-atomic-design) — ritamcastro
- [Everything as Code: A Dozen As-Code Concepts beyond Infrastructure or Configuration as Code](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/102-everything-as-code-a) — Jose Javier Alonso Moya
- [Supercharge Your Developer Journey with Tiny Atomic Habits](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/208-supercharge-your) — Natan Silnitsky