Episode 7 of Changelog's '#define' game show pits past winners against each other in a champion-of-champions format. The format is simple and brutal: obscure technical jargon, fake definitions, and players who know enough to be dangerous. Contestants include Taylor Troesh, Thomas Eckert, Matthew Sanabria, and E. David Aja, with Jerod Santo and Adam Stacoviak in the mix.
The episode title is 'sheer resistance,' which tells you exactly nothing, and that is the point. The game lives in the gap between what terms sound like and what they actually mean. Changelog++ members cut 6 minutes by skipping the sponsor reads from Tiger Data, Augment Code, Outshift by Cisco, and Miro.
Read this one for the process, not just the outcome. Watching people with genuine technical depth attempt to bluff and reason through fabricated definitions reveals more about how engineers think than most conference talks will. The full episode is at changelog.com.
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