I fucking love this post and reference it constantly to my programmer friends. It’s one of my favorite bits of writing to exist, honestly.
For that matter, actually, pretty much everything Peter Welch writes is great. I highly recommend taking a peek through the rest of his blog. I liked it so much I bought one of his books.
It is telling that I read the entire post feeling varying degrees of incredulity and despair, yet what really upset me was the missing <rant> at the beginning.
The only reason coders’ computers work better than non-coders’ computers is coders know computers are schizophrenic little children with auto-immune diseases and we don’t beat them when they’re bad.
I once told my father that people who work with computers run into problems all the time, it’s just that the problems we have are at a different scale or degree from the problems someone like he experienced. He said that it soothed him to hear that.
I generally feel like the opposite is true. I have more stability issues because of the weird half fucked hacks that I’ve installed over 7 different attempts to use the CLI to make my computer hallucinate small rainbow dogs.
I knew this one, but I enjoy it everytime. Because it’s true, we add way too much stuff we don’t need, and that page loads instantly and gets the point across. It’s perfect.
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