Ekaitz Zárraga 👹
The other day in a software event in my city I started thinking about the reasons people have to make software.
Many of them just make software, their idea is to make software as a goal, not as a tool.
There's a group of people who make software because they like to make products. Products for sell.
Others use it as a tool to get money to spend in other stuff.
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Ekaitz Zárraga 👹
I don't feel myself inside any of those groups. I make software because it's magic. I'm a magician in front of the keyboard.
I change the world, my small world, with my coding.
Coding is like a superpower. Like commanding your skeleton army.
I code because I'm lazy. I use software to help me do other things that would be too difficult to do without it.
I'm not thinking on food, selling or anything else.
I have a superpower and it makes me have more reach than the simple human I was before.
Sebastian
@ekaitz_zarraga I've first heard "coding is a superpower" in a documentation about Aaron Swartz and found it very compelling.
Wim 🈂️
Laziness, one of the three virtues of the programmer!
I can relate to your views. I code to solve problems, for myself and others. And because it's fun.
Ekaitz Zárraga 👹
@wim_v12e Exactly! That's one of the Perl book's points!
Did you know they needed to put a footnote in the Japanese edition just in case.
Work and laziness are not things they like to joke with.
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