Situated Software
When you try to make something that solves everything, you obsess over questions of power: how to make something that is omnipotent and everlasting. But when you make something that does one thing well, the questions are much more personal: does it solve my problem? and for how long? and who for? and where will it push the space around it? I want... See more
Be specific
The dream was that communities would get very form-fit tools for their particular needs, rather than trying to adapt generic software to solve them.
Maggie Appleton • Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
Malleable software does not imply everybody creating all of their own tools from scratch. That would be a waste of time, since many off-the-shelf tools are already pretty close to serving our needs, with only minor tweaks needed.
A more sensible approach is to start out using existing software tools built by other people or companies, but to have... See more
A more sensible approach is to start out using existing software tools built by other people or companies, but to have... See more