Habitability of the software (where users live), habitability of the code, habitability of the organization. Not a case of pick one (or even two).
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What’s the distinction between habitability of software vs code? I heard
@sarahmei on Tech Done Right discuss the the latter. Curious because I’m super interested in the topic and want to make sure I’m getting the language right!
I needed a way to talk about what users experience (working software) and what we experience immersed in code. Christopher Alexander, in that keynote, is inviting us to really think about software in terms of something users inhabit, in a sense, too. It threads through lives,
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enables and constrains/frustrates/thwarts, channels in good and bad ways...
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Makes sense! Gonna spend some time this weekend with the keynote. Last 9 months I’ve been working in a big codebase with 100s of developers and feel so unequipped with mental models to feel at home and write “good” code with the constancy of change and dynamism of collaboration.
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Yeah, the habitability of code dimension is _vital_ and I liked Sarah’s comfortably habitable slant
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