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Craft software that makes people feel something
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#32Circus Ponies Notebook.
That was a look into a world we steered away from.
Re: Craft software that makes people feel something
#33I love that essay.
I tend to do things the same way. I write software that I want to use.
I do tend to go "all the way," though. Making it ship-Quality, releasing it on the App Store, providing supporting Web documentation, etc.
Makes me feel good to do it.
I always used to say "My dream is to work for free."
Livin' the dream...
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#34Yeah I make software that makes people feel something - rage - there are 2 types of software one that no one cares about and software that people use and voice their opinions about :)
I was looking for this comment. For example Microsoft Teams and Office 365 make me feel something, but it’s not joy.
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#35Boo is an interesting name for an editor what feature were you looking to make that others didn't have? I like your website by the way, the blue square that turns the mouse cursor into a tracer is a neat effect and makes interacting with your content fun!
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#36There’s something refreshing about explicitly saying “this editor exists to delight me, and that’s enough”. The default script now is that every side project should either be open-sourced or turned into a SaaS, even if that pressure is exactly what kills the weirdness that made it interesting in the first place. Some of the best tools I’ve used felt like they started as someone’s private playground that only later go…
I'm very much for people open-sourcing their projects in terms of releasing the source code. Just don't accept patches or whatever, keep the repos closed
Re: Craft software that makes people feel something
#37Yeah I make software that makes people feel something - rage - there are 2 types of software one that no one cares about and software that people use and voice their opinions about :)
I was looking for this comment. For example Microsoft Teams and Office 365 make me feel something, but it’s not joy.
I feel bad for the poor souls that are forced to work on software like that. It surely can't be fun
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was looking for this comment. For example Microsoft Teams and Office 365 make me feel something, but it’s not joy.
I feel bad for the poor souls that are forced to work on software like that. It surely can't be fun
They might be sadists having the time of their lives. There are few better opportunities in life to get away consequence free with causing pain to a huge amount of people, than working on Microsoft Teams. Not only get away with it consequence free; they're even getting paid for it!
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#39> created solely for myself; I never had the intention of making it [...] mainstream
This is a habit I picked up from two people I respect greatly as programmers; Casey Muratori and Jonathan Blow.
Those guys both built their own little lands; Jon went as far as building a new language, a 3D game engine in that language, and has multiple game titles in-flight in the engine.
I have a handful of projects that are similar in spirit. I'm largely the only, and target, user of these projects. It's joyful to work in an environment you control completely. No deadlines, no feature requests, no support tickets, no garbage collector, no language runtime .. just me and the OS having a party.
Re: Craft software that makes people feel something
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was looking for this comment. For example Microsoft Teams and Office 365 make me feel something, but it’s not joy.
I feel bad for the poor souls that are forced to work on software like that. It surely can't be fun
H1-B visas? Their alternative surely isn't better.