Time for a change

Strong Opinions, Weakly Held

As a programer I write declarative statements day in day out. I should perhaps clarify that by saying that programmers generally have to. It’s how we make it happen. We bend it to our will, we shape it, we mold it in our image and we release it upon the world — our ideas and creativity that is.

So is that a problem?

Well no not realy. But we should — IMHO — be careful that this doesn't leak into our personal interactions. My spoken language has often been said to come across quite declarative, but thats not the real me, and I guess in those cases I wasn't careful enough.

You may have heard of the saying quoted in this post’s subtitle.

Strong Opinions, Weakly Held

This is something that I firmly stand by. I don't believe — again IMHO — that I can learn, without challenge and even changing my opinions, even if i did put my heart and soul into creating them in the first place.

So what am I changing my opinion on?

Well maybe nothing, maybe everything. The point is I need to continuously reevaluate. And at the moment, from a coding point of view that’s Jade and coffeescript. Are they useful? should I be using them? What gives?

Up until now, I would have run for the hills — I like to be close to the wire, and have minimal abstractions — but now? Well now it’s time for a closer look.