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.<\/p>\n
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<\/i> of the experience.” Github, for example, is great at the former, and totally fails at the latter.<\/p>\n
There is an inherent drama in coding. Sometimes you have spectacular successes, and other times you experience spectacular fails.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
I’d like to figure out how we can fix that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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