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Home-Cooked Software

stub software

Maggie Appleton: Home Cooked Software “The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it”
home-cooked software
Clay Shirky’s “situated software”
Robin Sloan: An app can be a home-cooked meal
local-first development
citizen developer
Me-ware, Software-For-One
https://secretgeek.net/ps_outlook
Gina Trapani and todo.txt
Trixie tracker
Micro-ISV
home-grown
works on my machine
scratch your own itch
do things that don’t scale
context collapse - domain expertise
“serverless” ?
short term long term medium term - you choose
Economy of scale and diseconomy of scale.
self-sustaining
VC versus Bootstrap versus low cost - self funded.
enshitification and the death by a thousand cuts
security by obscurity
humble goals
pharmacy software example
build versus buy
right-sized
fit for purpose
Guerilla warfare
Shadow IT
Welcome to the rebellion
permission versus forgiveness
job crafting
an itemised warehouse containing every item that’s ever passed through your hands. - versus - I keep the cutlery neatly arranged in this drawer right here.
software factory pipeline - standard components - modularisation - an open market - an impossible dream - a dream realised - a nightmare to behold

Uh oh

uh-oh - how it goes wrong — the many many ways
catastrophic data loss
combinatorial explosion
data leaks
maintenance costs over time
capture
dumping / flooding
golden handcuffs
temptation
join me luke
we will add your technological and superiority to our own. You will be assimilated
lost civilisations
crazy talk
golden age of yesteryear
burnout
over commitment
victim of your own success
earn your escape

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