4 my one year experience as a software writer has not been so nice, but really
5 you should ask someone else with more experience. i've only worked a little as
6 a freelancer (whatever that means) on some random websites. i've been learning
7 on the job (whatever that means).
9 i wish i could say i was young i needed the money but i'm not even that young
11 it's absurd that i can't find a job, and that i can't hold on to the jobs that
15 there are probably other ways of saying it, but it's also fine to say that
16 i've been bored. i don't know why. there have been projects i'm not ashamed
17 of, but most of the time it hasn't been like that.
19 it's depressing to see that some cliches are true. the offices of lab rats
20 typing looking for the key of the cookie, waiting to be rewarded with a
21 cookie, and kept awake with coffee.
23 where does this quote come from?
25 i could have passed out in front of the computer and no one would have
26 noticed. the feeling that no one knows what they're doing. the obscure files
27 that you can find inside of some computers. what i would do is open them for
28 as long as i'd stand it, close my eyes, press some random keys, close them and
29 try to forget about it. there's determinacy in software insofar as you can
30 work like this and nothing breaks.
32 # after this, for me, code can't be about contemplation or perception. there's
33 # no way out, no mountain to escape to, no place to contemplate my mark-up. i
34 # wish it was, but it can't be only about the code. if it was only about the
35 # code, i wouldn't need to go out of my room.
37 after one year of writing software, it's good to go back to the first things i
38 wrote. maybe there is something of crawling into my bed and pulling up the
39 covers about it. probably not. i'm just happy. it was great to have imagined
40 an introductory perl manual where the examples and exercises deal with
41 generative groff mark-up.