3 Minutes With Kent

What is up friends so this is another one in the real world programming analogies segment I guess so actually a long time ago. I wrote this down as something I could do for a blog post but you know TV remotes and how like you either have like 30 different remotes to control like your TV and the receiver and the the Chromecast, you know, like all the different and remotes that you need for that it's a disaster or you can get a universal remote. And what's interesting about universal remotes is that they're to make them actually universal first of all there's a lot of work to make it work with all these different technologies, but then they're like 20,000 buttons on these things and nobody knows what they do because they have to be generic enough to be universal and I was and and so like either one of those is isn't great but it just made me think about abstractions and trying to make your stuff overly useful or satisfy at. Every use case and actually I was listening to syntax recently and I think it was last w