I'm the owner of Domain51, author of the first published book on Git and quickly becoming a rabid Lawrencian. On here I write about the business, our code, our clients, our mission. My code is online, my status is pretty easy to figure out, and in case you want to stalk me, I'm pretty easy to find.
I can’t count the times I’ve backed off of “really cool” designs because they weren’t going to be easy to explain or hand off to someone else.
Programming is an embarrassment compared to other fields of engineering and design. Our mainstream culture is one of adolescent self-indulgence. It is like something from Gulliver’s Travels, with the curly-bracketeers vs. the indentationites vs. the parenthesesophiles. The only thing that everyone seems to agree upon is how stupid all the other programmers are. Try googling “stupid programmers”. We have met the enemy, and he is us.
Programming will not grow up until our culture grows up. We can only patiently and persistently do our part to elevate the level of discourse, and share what wisdom we have gained.
