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RE: https://mastodon.social/@a2_4am/116072144942640899

Meta-note: this is the GOOD STUFF. This took me HOURS to debug, and in those hours I developed a mental model of a complex operation AND learned something new about ProDOS internals AND tested and discarded several theories before finally discovering the root cause and it was ALL WORTH IT. I don't want to outsource that to Dr. Flattery the Always-Wrong Chat Box. Why would I want to skip this? This is the WHOLE THING.

If you don't want to write software then don't.

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This: https://jneen.ca/posts/2026-03-27-how-to-make-programming-terrible-for-everyone/

which led me to Peter Naur's 1985 article "Programming as Theory Building": "the proper, primary aim of programming is, not to produce programs, but to have the programmers build theories of the manner in which the problems at hand are solved by program execution."

When I'm building software, first and foremost the thing I'm building is me.

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