Software is Power

Software birthed in a vacuum is like avant-garde art or a purely cosmetic iteration on the very same thing. (Seriously, though, how many button animations do we need?)

Yes, it’s clever and creative and many times very beautiful. Other times, it’s a solution in search of a problem. I realize that you can learn something from these exercises, but these kinds of exercises don’t interest me long term.

I love tackling real problems with elegant software that users both want and use. And I don’t mean that the real problem has to be a big problem like eliminating poverty.

It can be a small problem, like helping prevent sexual assault or letting deaf people speak to hearing people more easily.

Well-crafted code transmutes an amalgam of metal, plastic, and glass with a dash of electricity into the power to make our world a better place to be. It’s almost magical.

Software is power.