Software & Technology

Things got a bit messy. They all demanded more, more and more: clients, your manager, deadlines coming up, even yourself, feeling you were falling behind, and now, thanks to AI, you can provide. Oh boy, big time!...

Writing is sometimes repetitive, hard, and boring, but if you don't spend the time writing something, expect the same from your readers when they encounter your text....

Some years ago, building a side project meant finding time wherever you could. Late nights, weekends, or early mornings to squeeze some work in before your real job starts....

Art history shows us that we tend to move between adding "unnecessary" elaborate decorations to clean styles and back again. It's almost an endless cycle repeated over and over. This cycle happens in the different arts and other fields where design is involved, like software. Let's trace it in architecture first....

Let me introduce you to WordStar 4.0, a popular word processor from the early 80s. WordStar 4.0 As old as it seems, George R.R. Martin used it to write “A Song of Ice and Fire”. Why would someone use such an old piece of software to write over 5,000 pages? I love how he puts it: It does everything I want a word processing program to do and it doesn't do anything else. I don't want any help. I hate some of these modern systems where you type up a lowercase letter and it becomes a capital. I don't want a capital, if I'd wanted a capital, I would have typed the capital.George R.R. Martin This program embodies the concept of finished software — a software you can use forever with no unneeded changes. ...