Chapter IV The Book of Life
Technology
Developer experience, open source and the economics of the software everyone depends on.
Shorter pieces on the craft and economics of software: what developer experience actually means, and why the open source almost everything depends on is so rarely paid for.
2 essays in this chapter
- Why Is Open Source Maintenance Unpaid? Open source won the technical argument. The people keeping critical infrastructure running are often unpaid volunteers, a cost nobody budgeted for.
- What Developer Experience Actually Means Broken onboarding docs, unmeasured toil, and the quiet demoralization that compounds before anyone notices. Here's what developer experience actually means and where most teams miss it.