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Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.

— Eric S. Raymond The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1997)

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I publish this blog in part because I think it is my duty to speak taboo and unspeakable truths.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1997)

Barring the mythical portable-LISP-dialect-with-good-OS-bindings that has never existed, Python is about the most reasonable alternative there is for this kind of work.

At any sufficient scale, those who do not have automatic memory management in their language are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

The habit of institutional tone policing, even when well-intentioned, too easily slides into the active censorship of disfavored views.

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