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For me the joy of programming is a direct consequence of the solution I deliver. That’s it. This means I tend to focus on product and human efficiency. When I
by austincheney 6y ago
For me the joy of programming is a direct consequence of the solution I deliver. That’s it.
This means I tend to focus on product and human efficiency. When I am not being efficient I am focused instead on refactoring because the simplicity provide to one area opens scale in a way I would not have previously considered.
The anti-thesis here is unnecessary pageantry. It’s all the bullshit other developers need to make things easier, such as excess tools, frameworks, decorations, process nonsense, and so forth. These things distract from solution delivery, waste time, and increase required investment.
- Tempest1981 6y agoI find it motivating to create tools that help coworkers. Something satisfying about the direct feedback, vs a faceless customer. Creating things for myself alone no longer has much excitement, or only brief bursts of excitement. It used to, like OP notes.
- austincheney 6y agoThere is a metric to that line of thought. The further away from the self, and thus programming generally, the audience becomes the more exciting and challenging the product becomes to write.