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> We Love Writing Software So Much, We're Willing to Do It for Free The title is right. People love writing software a lot. In my experience in this field, mo
by oblio 2y ago
> We Love Writing Software So Much, We're Willing to Do It for Free
The title is right. People love writing software a lot.
In my experience in this field, most don't love or even hate:
1. Fixing bugs, especially obscure ones.
2. Localizing.
3. Updating project dependencies.
4. Updating the project to follow the latest standards (security, internet, domain specific standards).
5. Doing especially the UI part, in a consistent way (consistent colors, spacing, workflows, the works).
6. Writing tests.
7. Setting up builds.
8. Setting up CI/CD pipelines.
9. Planning and roadmaps.
I'd argue that writing software is basically cheap. The expensive part is everything else, which means you're a professional software developer, so basically a "software accountant" that has to dot every i and cross every t, and it's what makes software provide real value.
- changexd 2y agoI think it depends on people, there are people hate these and there are people love handling this and get paid or not get paid, it's the beauty of software imo, "cooperation", I may not be good enough to come up with big projects or architectures, but I can help out setting up tests or fix some minor bugs so the core developers can work on something more important.
- oblio 2y agoIt depends on people, that's why I said "most". And I stand by that. Software, and the world in general, has far more dreamers than dredgers.