Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it?

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

I find that getting something on the screen as soon as possible really helps focus the problem for me. It helps me decide what to work on next. Because if you're just looking at that big to-do list it's like, eh, I don't know which one I should do—does it matter which one I do? But if there's something you can actually look at, even if it's just the debug output of your mailbox parser, it's like, OK, there!

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it?

See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.

Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!