I enjoyed this article about personal project programming, but I particularly liked this definition:

[wilfredh@mastodon.social]

I enjoyed this article about personal project programming, but I particularly liked this definition:

"Production code has a phone number to call when it breaks"

An ode to houseplant programming 🪴

Waxing poetic about hyperlocal phytoid software development

(hannahilea.com)

[autonomousapps@mstdn.social]

@wilfredh so this means none of Google's code is production code?

[adx@infosec.exchange]

@wilfredh I was involved in getting Open Source into a behemoth organization in the early 2000s. The number one complaint from the lawyers was "What number are we going to call when the shit hits the fans?"

RedHat made a lot of money off of that organization.