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I agree with the ethos of the article entirely, I think. I personally love taking an organic and experimental and highly incremental approach to pretty much eve
by avg_dev 3y ago
I agree with the ethos of the article entirely, I think. I personally love taking an organic and experimental and highly incremental approach to pretty much everything.
I feel like the word “putter” has some connotations associated with it that make it misplaced in the article, though. I looked it up in the M-W dictionary and I think that the appropriate definition was the verb:
1: to move or act aimlessly or idly
2: to work at random: tinker
And the “especially” part of the definition of tinker has “unskilled or experimental manner” in it.
Experimental I can get behind. Organic, not necessarily pre-meditated, even. But unskilled? I think that is not what is being aimed at here. This is careful, painstaking work, with attention to details.
A minor quibble to be sure. I still don’t actually know what bearblog.dev is but it must be some kind of place for devs at small software shops to write about their work is my guess, based on the two or three posts I’ve read on the domain name. I’ve enjoyed them all so far.
- kcartlidge 3y agoRe: putter. I don't know where the Bear Blog dev hails from but it's a word used a lot here in the UK. We putter around. Sometimes (more commonly) we also potter around. Commonly used to explain how we somehow combine aimlessness and mindfulness in one action to casually, and almost as an accidental by-product, spend time achieving some wistful off-hand goal to varying degrees of satisfaction.
- montag 3y agoChecks out. Bear Blog is based in South Africa (from the article).
- fm2606 3y agoPutter might be a colloquial term. I grew up in the mid-west and quite familiar with the word putter as the definitions given above.