Thoughts on the intersection of communities, software and companies.
It is perhaps hard for users to understand why extending software to add new functionality can break existing functionality. Why doesn’t software always get linearly better everywhere ? It turns out adding new things almost inevitably means adapting, changing, re-factoring, and re-working existing already working code – sometimes throwing up surprising new results. Perhaps a bit like extending your road network.
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