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submitted 6 days ago by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems

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Another excellent piece from Iris Meredith - strongly recommend reading if you want an idea of how to un-fuck software as a field.

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I got my start with line-number BASIC, MS-DOS batch files and x86 assembly.

Oh, and once in college, I got really high and made a Visual Basic program that had no graphical user interface.

[–] lproven@awful.systems 2 points 3 days ago

a Visual Basic program that had no graphical user interface.

I approve of this sort of thing.