Against software development
There's something mildly "ranty" about this, to its own detriment. I believe what it is is that it seems to try to connect ideas that have no logical connection, but simply an emotional association.<p>For example, what is the connection between "Beautiful code gets rewritten" and "Refuse to work on systems that profit from digital addictions." ?<p>It comes across as though the author is just vaguely angry at the loose concept of software.<p>It's true that the software ecosystem is incredibly disorganized and inefficient (100s of similar distros, dozens of similar package managers, thousands of redundant tools). But I don't think one should get bent out-of-shape about it. If you think about it objectively, if it were efficient then most of us likely wouldn't have jobs.