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When you liberate programming from the requirement to be general and professional and scalable, it becomes a different activity altogether, just as cooking at home is really nothing like cooking in a commercial kitchen. I can report to you: not only is this different activity rewarding in almost exactly the same way that cooking for someone yo... See more
Robin Sloan • An app can be a home-cooked meal
Working in tech should be more like filmmaking—artists jumping from project to project, collaborating with new creators across disciplines every few months, making magic happen.
Imagine a collab between your favorite designers/devs dropping like a Wes Anderson trailer.
Andy Allenx.com
There already exists a programming philosophy with ideas on how to tame entropy and ensure that computers actually control complexity, instead of increase it. Those ideas are summarized in the Unix philosophy, which I’ve added below for convenience:
- Write programs that do one thing and do it well.
- Write programs to work together