Objective versus subjective experience

There have been many excellent comments in response to my recent posts about “programming as storytelling”. I am starting to see a pattern form in peoples’ thoughts.

There seems to be a split between “we are getting the information across about the history of a programming process” and “we are conveying the feeling of the experience.” Github, for example, is great at the former, and totally fails at the latter.

There is an inherent drama in coding. Sometimes you have spectacular successes, and other times you experience spectacular fails.

The difference between those two extremes of experience is highly instructive (and can be very entertaining). But that subjective information is rarely conveyed in a useable way.

I’d like to figure out how we can fix that.

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