I’ve just closed my laptop after a full day of meetings — roadmap reviews, architecture decisions, a particularly spirited debate over boundaries of our capabilities. The kind of day where you talk little about code and write even less of it. I’ve spent over twenty-five years in this industry. I started writing code when hard drives were measured in megabytes (my brother yelled at me for consuming couple of kilobytes of memory on his brand new Seagate hard drive on his 286), when “the web” meant blinking text on Netscape, and when the height of programmer ambition was getting your *.bas program…
