Putting together the blog post collection has meant trying to find old links in the Wayback Machine
One was this one by the legendary Kathy Sierra in 2004. It’s both inspiring and depressing, because we all know what happened in the intervening two decades
“A Computer Book Author’s Manifesto” https://web.archive.org/web/20120118171954/http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/ksmanifesto.html
In case you don’t know what happened.
1. Kathy was driven off the internet by a nazi and the entirety of tech sided with the literal nazi
2. The computer book market collapsed to a fraction of its former size
3. Software quality collapsed
4. Kathy returned to the internet a decade later, only to be driven off again because tech again prefered to side with literal nazis over women cooties.
5. Dev education turned into an industry of shilling and grift
6. Generative models are nuking what’s left
Baldur Bjarnason
Olivier Forget