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by mothsonasloth
1265 days ago
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I'm in the same boat, that I have contemplated starting a business making houmous as a street food vendor. The author's article does resonate with me but to add, I think the software game has changed a lot since the dot-com era.
It has changed for worse, we are disconnected from the hardware and the users. We are just middleware integration specialists, depending on an ever decreasing amount of pioneers building systems, frameworks or low level processes. I want to build Dijkstras algorithms not write integration tests for APIs made terribly by Stripe |
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It was always so? It is so in every single technology: A layer is built and its complexities are solved, enabling the people and society to move to the next level and build another layer on it. With every step, more layers are put in between the lowest level and where we are. But every layer pushes us up one level more, allowing us to do things that were unimaginable before.
Technology has always been middleware. Somewhere someone discovers a pioneering, new implementation or tech. The rest of the process is doing middleware to bring that tech to the people.