@bert_hubert it’s a good piece. It reminds me of a video by a woodworker I watched some time ago. It was about how we fetishise William Morris and the Arts & Crafts movement as good craftsmanship. But those were largely wealthy middle class people cosplaying as mediaeval craftspeople, making furniture for other rich people. It’s not a sustainable model of what craftsmanship should be in the modern world.

So what is? Ercol maybe? Largely machine-made, hand finished, with good design and decent materials. What would be the Ercol of software development? But even Ercol is quite expensive compared to Ikea, say.

(Edit: I think this is the video: https://youtu.be/fkEsm1FBKIc)