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@clacke when your #introduction is more like a CV))
you're also a very open minded person, feels like one could discuss anything with you. also in addition to parentheses you might like parenting too-
@shpuld I do like parenting. Love it, in fact.
It's a lot like software development, partly because it is! Just that the legacy code is 4 billion years old and *literally* nobody knows exactly how it works, not even the guy who left the office last year. Or the two people who sort of literally put their souls into the product. And the only way to program it is through this clunky UI that is constantly under development and buggy as hell.
Where proper software development is mostly about people, parenting is *all* about people. And nobody knows what we're doing, and your only comfort is you're pretty sure there are a lot of people out there who are even less clueless than you, because you are confronted with the results every day.
So it's thankless, hard work that eats your brain and never leaves you alone ... and I don't want it to.
I'm so happy every time I can see something finally working, and I can project that this version is going to surpass the previous generation in several ways. He's funny, clever, caring, fiercely self-reliant and doesn't take mango from anyone.
Of course, fixing the old bugs almost certainly leads to creating new ones.
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