<story><title>To make programming easier, first be conscious of what makes it hard (2014)</title><url>http://lighttable.com/2014/05/16/pain-we-forgot/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jamii</author><text>Hi. I&amp;#x27;m the author. Such nostalgia. With tools like airtable and notion around today, we&amp;#x27;re actually making substantial progress towards making simple tasks easy.&lt;p&gt;These days I&amp;#x27;m writing at &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;scattered-thoughts.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;scattered-thoughts.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; and working on &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jamii&amp;#x2F;dida&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jamii&amp;#x2F;dida&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jamii&amp;#x2F;imp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jamii&amp;#x2F;imp&lt;/a&gt;. Same ideals, but backed by many more years of ~~failure~~ experience.&lt;p&gt;Also still complaining about things &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;scattered-thoughts.net&amp;#x2F;writing&amp;#x2F;against-sql&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;scattered-thoughts.net&amp;#x2F;writing&amp;#x2F;against-sql&lt;/a&gt; and breaking things &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;scattered-thoughts.net&amp;#x2F;writing&amp;#x2F;internal-consistency-in-streaming-systems&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;scattered-thoughts.net&amp;#x2F;writing&amp;#x2F;internal-consistency-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>To make programming easier, first be conscious of what makes it hard (2014)</title><url>http://lighttable.com/2014/05/16/pain-we-forgot/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>b3morales</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand why the article thinks it&amp;#x27;s reasonable for someone with literally 0 experience to develop an application with multiple features and integrations with other systems from scratch, on their own. The point about space age machines notwithstanding, this is inherently complex and skilled work.&lt;p&gt;We don&amp;#x27;t expect someone who&amp;#x27;s never touched a chisel to be able to fabricate and install a full set of kitchen cabinets, either. And there&amp;#x27;s no shame in that -- they just need to spend time learning. Or they can do the &amp;quot;google -&amp;gt; stack overflow -&amp;gt; copy&amp;#x2F;paste&amp;quot; thing by going down to their local home goods store and buying some prefab particle board units and watching a YouTube video on how to hang them. (And again, no shame -- online video can be an excellent source of craft information.)</text></comment>