Less Magic More Engineering

Early in my career, I followed a Python programmer named Gary Bernhardt. Some of you might know him from the popular WAT talk that made data structures look like an afterthought in JavaScript. I had the pleasure of watching Gary live code as part of "birds of a feather" one night at Pycon 2012 and I was never the same. As most early career programmers do I put Gary on a pedestal. If I'm honest, I…