An app can be a home-cooked meal

Robin Sloan · by 29 Feb 2020

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Freed from having to be professional and scalable, programming becomes a different activity, as cooking at home differs from a commercial kitchen.

Their wordsWhen you liberate programming from the requirement to be professional and scalable, it becomes a different activity altogether, just as cooking at home is really nothing like cooking in a commercial kitchen.
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Software you build for your own family will not change unless you want it to.

Their wordsThis messaging app I built for, and with, my family, it won’t change unless we want it to change.

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