The Steve Wozniak Guide to Building Better Software
Software development insights from the man who started the personal computing revolution
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There are a few icons in the history of personal computing that programmers like to idolize, and the grandfather of the all is Steve Wozniak. The sales and marketing people have Jobs, the programmers have Woz. For good reason, too — Steve Wozniak accomplished some amazing things, including designing and building the Apple II from scratch, both hardware and software. While you might be thinking “That happened in 1977, in a garage, in California. How does it apply to me, today, in 2019, in my chair, on the internet?”, my goal for this article is to distill some of Steve’s genius and apply it to modern software development.
My primary lens into the brain of Steve Wozniak is chapter 3 of the fantastic collection-of-interviews-in-book-form, Founders at Work (affiliate link (full text of Ch3 here)). Some additional resources are linked at the bottom of this article, and Steve is also apparently very active on Twitter via Foursquare Swarm (not…
