Consultant and full-stack builder, forty years in.
I write software that businesses choose to live with for a long time, and this
is where I write down what that teaches me: the design decisions, the
trade-offs, the occasional dead end, and the economics of keeping software
alive for decades instead of quarters.
Forty Years of Revolutions I’ve been writing software for money since 1983, and five or six times now I’ve been told the job was about to change forever. 4GLs were going to let you describe what you…