{"id":913,"date":"2011-01-24T00:20:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T07:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/?p=913"},"modified":"2011-01-24T00:28:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T07:28:21","slug":"miserable-programmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2011\/01\/miserable-programmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek Thoughts: the miserable programmer paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.garlicsim.org\/post\/2840398276\/the-miserable-programmer-paradox\">article<\/a> interesting. The author posits:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153A good programmer will spend most of his time doing work that he hates, using tools and technologies that he also hates.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I disagree with many of his supporting arguments, I think the overall theme is pretty accurate. Working with software, the good parts seem to disappear away, so what you spend most time on are the grotty bits. In fact, I&#8217;d go as far as calling disappearability one of the defining aspects of good code-level software tools &amp; techniques.<\/p>\n<p>More collected Geek Thoughts at http:\/\/<a href=\"http:\/\/geekthoughts.info\/\">GEEKTHOUGHTS<\/a>.info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this article interesting. The author posits: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A good programmer will spend most of his time doing work that he hates, using tools and technologies that he also hates.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d While I disagree with many of his supporting arguments, I think the overall theme is pretty accurate. Working with software, the good parts seem to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[284],"tags":[954,1179,1045,638],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekthoughts","tag-crap","tag-geekthoughts","tag-programmer","tag-tools"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eo8l-eJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}