nails not wood: focus on building, not writing code
DESCRIPTION
My lightning talk for Women Who Code on how I built RocksBox: leveraged my time by focusing on connecting SASS & opensource software together rather than rewriting that functionality myself.TRANSCRIPT
Maia Bittner@maiab
CTO/Co-founder
nailsnot
wood
•know how to•hard to find existing solutions
•cheap•fast•feels good / fun
but it’s so tempting to build yourself!
•… actually faster•… actually cheaper•more secure•more performant
temptations lead you astray
