I suppose if the options are "Uncle Bob's Rules" and the straw man of "No Rules" that could be true. That's like if you gave yourself the options of "one hand behind your back" or "two hands behind your back" in a fight when we already knew how to fight with "zero hands behind your back".
But I'm not sure I even believe that, because the worst thing is dogmatism. Uncle Bob convinced young developers to be dogmatic.
I've dealt with code that was a mess with no adherence to rules. I've dealt with teams where everything need to be perfect. The first group shipped products. The second groups had neat looking code bases but had much more trouble shipping. Sometimes it was impossible to get in simple lines of code because it didn't match "the rules".
In fact, if Uncle Bob really doesn't want 4-line functions, and wants moderation, he should write a better book. Whatever he claims to mean, everyone sure seems to think that's what his book says.
I personally found it to be one of the most needlessly dogmatic things I've read.
That's over a year earlier. Nothing new had happened, and he pretended this was a new board. An honest person who learned this might say it was deceptive, but he could get away without lying in court since, hey, it had finally arrived!
Also, the Mayflower finally Arrived in America!
He used this claim to get a huge boost in funding, and he blew all of that.
As I'm sure other's have mentioned, he went about all this in some terrible fashion (ignoring if the whole ideas is a mistake). I'm not an expert in PCBs but I have printed some. He could save a tremendous amount of time using Pick and Place on the SMT components for very little extra cash. And he's using through-hole resistors and capacitors which only makes sense if you absolutely refuse to pick and place. Even many of the through-hole could be placed using the right service and many of the SMT components are probably cheaper.
(And while we're at it, you can buy custom key-caps)
I only watch T8bG now to see what he does wrong. He's someone who thinks ancient version control for code is too modern. But it is sad to see him take other's money.
The board that he shows at 0:41 is the 4th prototype, aka the board that is now shipping to developers and backers.
The board he shows later in the video is the older prototype, which does have a different layout. I'm not sure why he uses this older prototype through most of the video, but I suspect that it's because he already had this footage and didn't want to (or need to) shoot that section over again, just to show a board with a few pieces in a different place.
Yea, It's a bit like watching a car wreck in slow motion. I'm sad that he dragged TexElec into this. TexElec has been a good and reputable place to buy retro adapters. Hopefully, it doesn't drag down TexElec.
But I'm not sure I even believe that, because the worst thing is dogmatism. Uncle Bob convinced young developers to be dogmatic.
I've dealt with code that was a mess with no adherence to rules. I've dealt with teams where everything need to be perfect. The first group shipped products. The second groups had neat looking code bases but had much more trouble shipping. Sometimes it was impossible to get in simple lines of code because it didn't match "the rules".