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I feel like the entire premise of this article is flawed. "Learning how to store passwords or add OAuth2 to your toy web site is not fun." Maybe it's not fun fo

I feel like the entire premise of this article is flawed. "Learning how to store passwords or add OAuth2 to your toy web site is not fun." Maybe it's not fun for him, but I find both of those things fascinating and enjoyed learning them. And with all of his talk about how it wouldn't be possible for someone to crap out medical records software like his father did: GOOD! Let's be real, that software was almost certainly crap and full of bugs. It's not the type of thing that an amateur should be writing on his lunch break. It sounds to me like this guy wants to be able to make important software without actually learning to program for real.

BenjiWiebe 7y ago
From what I've heard (two friends in healthcare, one a hospital administrator the other cto in said hospital) the software is still really bad today.
enneff 7y ago
> "Learning how to store passwords or add OAuth2 to your toy web site is not fun." I think it's more that correctly implementing security is hard, and if you have no interest in exposing your application to the greater internet you shouldn't be shouldered with the burden of both gaining and maintaining an understanding of the state-of-the-art in web security. > Let's be real, that software was almost certainly crap and full of bugs. It's not the type of thing that an amateur should be writing on his lunch break. Nope; computer systems were simpler, and so they were easier to program correctly. There is tons of high quality hobbyist software from the 80s and 90s. > It sounds to me like this guy wants to be able to make important software without actually learning to program for real. The author of that blog is one of the most skilled programmers I have known.