The Delight of Development

I wish people would write blog posts about doing things they “love” without trying to underhandedly sell something.<p>If you liked this comment, hit that subscribe button and leave a comment and I’ll see you next time!

I love software development as a <i>creative</i> task. It means, I love it when I do <i>create</i>, that is, when I make something that is the fruit of my imagination.<p>Development is a nightmare for me when I have to develop someone else&#x27;s (i.e. my company) idea. At that point, it&#x27;s not creation anymore, it&#x27;s execution.

Ah yes; a fluff piece with nothing in it.<p>Article is named &quot;Delight of Development&quot; but of course the author is &quot;not a developer anymore&quot;.<p>&gt;My focus now is less on building software myself, and more about enabling others build better software.<p>Translation: I don&#x27;t produce anything but lord it over people who do. What the hell is &quot;Developer Relations&quot;? Has the industry gone mad?<p>Most of us got into programming because we enjoyed it; until the &quot;Industry&quot; with its useless &quot;managemeent&quot; layers destroyed our motivation&#x2F;enjoyment of it and turned us into unhappy drones.

I really like to hear more from people who don&#x27;t care about coding or software development in general.<p>I&#x27;d assume the majority of developers is not doing coding at home, as long as they don&#x27;t have to learn a new skill for their next job. They neither hate nor love coding, they tolerate it as a means to an end.<p>I also assume that those developers rise as much through the ranks as the love coding kind. At least that&#x27;s my observation so far. Or to be more precise, I belive they more of the not loving kind rise through the ranks.<p>But it&#x27;s rare hearing from them. They don&#x27;t care too much about what they do at work, at least not as a trade, hence no blogging. And we all feel that it&#x27;s unwise to be open about not being pashioned about your work.

I think these types of reflections are generally important — “the unexamined life is not worth living” and all that. Thanks for sharing!<p>I was surprised by this sentence:<p>&gt; My measure for a well tested system? One that lets you deploy at 5pm on a Friday before confidently heading to the pub for a few pints with the team that just shipped.<p>It feels... optimistic.