Digital escapade

Programmers sometimes live in a parallel world.

A luring, perfect, ideal world. A world built from zeroes and ones. Its own language. Its own beauty. And I know from experience, it is all too easy to get hooked on tools. Architectures. Switching between technologies.

It is so easy to move from an actual problem, into optimising a philosophical problem. To endlessly debate and optimise and find the perfect trade-off.

But here’s the trap - tech becomes an escapade.
Instead of solving real-world problems, programmers chase the abstract. The utopian pursuit of the perfect tool.

But perfection is an illusion. And the real world, with its messy problems is left waiting.