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.For example, what is the connection between "Beautiful code gets rewritten" and "Refuse to work on systems that profit from digital addictions." ?It comes across as though the author is just vaguely angry at the loose concept of software.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.