What I Learned From Biology, and How Can You Transfer It to Computer Science?

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Biology is such a different sort of thing to computing. It why i found it refreshing. Because i was your prototypical teen aged laval stage nerd. I had spent lots and lots of time with computers, and now something completely different was really what i needed between the ages of 18 and 21. The other end of the spectrum, you are learning the deep, fairly elegant, underlying principles of the universe. And is an enormous amount of complexity. People talk about the complexity crisis and computing, the way that these machines are too big for a person to understand. We ain't got nothing on biology, because any given slice of it is too big for absolute experts in that mane to

“Documentation is content marketing. If your docs don’t summarize what your product is actually about, you’re going to have a rough time getting anybody interested."

Meredydd Luff is the founder of Anvil, the platform for building web apps with nothing but Python. In this episode, Meredydd shared his story starting Anvil and his point of view on the latest Low-Code & No-Code movement and whether it would affect the demand for developers. He touched on the importance of domain experts having the ability to develop software and how tools like Anvil could play a part in supporting them to translate their ideas better. In the second half of the episode, we discussed the importance of product documentation and how it also plays a major part in content marketing. Meredydd shared his tips and best practices for documentation, including how to create thriving online Q&A product forums.

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Career Journey - [00:05:17]
Anvil Story - [00:09:16]
Low Code / No Code - [00:12:26]
Domain Knowledge Coder - [00:18:08]
Demand for Developers - [00:22:37]
Importance of Product Documentation - [00:25:42]
Documentation is Content Marketing - [00:29:16]
Online Q&A Forums - [00:33:18]
Developer Advocates - [00:36:55]
3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:39:43]

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Meredydd Luff’s Bio
Meredydd Luff is the founder of Anvil (https://anvil.works), the platform for building and deploying apps on the web with nothing but Python. He’s particularly interested in expanding access to code, and has a PhD in building usable programming systems.

Follow Meredydd:

Anvil – https://anvil.works/
Twitter – @meredydd
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredydd

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