The Seven Voyages Of Steve on Nostr: It makes me laugh/cry that we spent decades trying to get the software industry to ...
It makes me laugh/cry that we spent decades trying to get the software industry to internalise that it takes far more effort to support & maintain systems than it does to write them in the first place, and yet seemingly every trendy development in the last 5-10 years has been about making that initial stage faster & sloppier at the expense of everything else
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