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1 • [1]Archive 2 • [2]Newsletter 3 • [3]Work 4 • [4]Contact 5 6 [5]Baldur Bjarnason 7 8 Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland 9 10 28 March 2024 11 12 ‘I’m not a cynic, I’m disappointed’ – the Software Crisis Easter Sale 13 14 Most people don’t realise just how few of the “critics” in tech are genuine 15 cynics. 16 17 You don’t spend a good part of your life shouting about bad websites or broken 18 software and how they could be fixed if you’re a cynic. 19 20 Cynics don’t believe things can be fixed and they don’t believe that fixing 21 things would help in the first place. 22 23 Somebody who is constantly pointing out various instances of software 24 inaccessibility isn’t doing so because they’re a cynic. They believe this can 25 be done better; they were optimistic enough to expect more; and now they’re 26 disappointed. 27 28 And anybody who thinks that pointing out common flaws in the tech industry is 29 good for your career is hilariously wrong. Dramatically pulls out his wallet 30 using only his index finger and thumb. Carefully opens it. A cartoonish moth 31 flies out of the empty wallet. 32 33 People who point out what needs to be improved are generally disappointed 34 optimists. Only an optimist would believe that pointing out what has gone wrong 35 could ever result in said issue being fixed. Only somebody who believes that 36 software could be universally useful to everybody in society is going to spend 37 time discovering and highlighting accessibility issues. 38 39 You don’t spend years of your life figuring out how the flaws of the web can be 40 fixed unless you think the web has massive unfulfilled potential. 41 42 We’re not cynics. If we were, we wouldn’t waste so much energy being hopeful. 43 44 But, people in tech frequently seem to believe that people like me are haters – 45 that we’re out to prevent the industry from doing amazing things. 46 47 That, the seeming slow progress, and the frequent setbacks get tiring after a 48 while. We’re only a quarter of the way through the year and I’m already 49 exhausted. 50 51 I’m not a religious person, but Easter is coming around right at a time when I 52 need a bit of a break, so a break it is. 53 54 However, being the eternal optimist that I am, I figure I might as well run an 55 Easter sale while I’m off on the couch watching movies. 56 57 So, until the end of day 1 April, the discount code EASTER24 will give you a 58 $10 USD off any of my ebooks. That means that you can get Out of the Software 59 Crisis and The Intelligence Illusion for $25 USD each. 60 61 And, yes, it means that, since their normal price starts at $10 USD you can get 62 the ebook version of Yellow or my essay collection Bad Writing And Other Essays 63 for $0 USD. 64 65 (Though, in the case of Bad Writing you have the option of paying more if you 66 want to support this blog.) 67 68 The discount code again: 69 70 EASTER24 71 72 The ebooks: 73 74 [6]Out of the Software Crisis 75 76 [DEL:$35 USD:DEL]… $25 USD for PDF and EPUB. 77 78 [7]Direct checkout with discount applied 79 80 [8]The Intelligence Illusion 81 82 [DEL:$35 USD:DEL]… $25 USD for PDF and EPUB. 83 84 [9]Direct checkout with discount applied 85 86 [10]Bad Writing 87 88 [DEL:$10+ USD:DEL]… $0+ USD for PDF and EPUB. 89 90 [11]Direct checkout with discount applied 91 92 [12]Yellow: principles (or useless aphorisms) for software dev (ebook edition) 93 94 [DEL:$10 USD:DEL]… $0 USD for PDF and EPUB. 95 96 [13]Direct checkout with discount applied 97 98 In the meantime, try to be kind to yourselves and forgiving of your own flaws. 99 Not because of some religious thing. 100 101 Do it because it makes sense. 102 103 [14] Links, Notes, and Photos (28 March 2024) 104 105 Join the Newsletter 106 107 Subscribe to the [15]Out of the Software Crisis newsletter to get my weekly (at 108 least) essays on how to avoid or get out of software development crises. 109 110 Join now and get a free PDF of three bonus essays from Out of the Software 111 Crisis. 112 113 [16][ ] 114 Subscribe 115 116 We respect your privacy. 117 118 Unsubscribe at any time. 119 120 You can also find me on [18]Mastodon and [19]Twitter 121 122 References: 123 124 [1] https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/archive 125 [2] https://softwarecrisis.dev/ 126 [3] https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/work/2021/ 127 [4] mailto:[email protected] 128 [5] https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/ 129 [6] https://softwarecrisis.baldurbjarnason.com/ 130 [7] https://store.baldurbjarnason.com/buy/02e0f69a-aef4-41f7-8a6c-cd3739da6c73?checkout%5Bdiscount_code%5D=EASTER24 131 [8] https://illusion.baldurbjarnason.com/ 132 [9] https://store.baldurbjarnason.com/buy/cd2b8ac5-4409-4567-b90d-ed83998c5c74?checkout%5Bdiscount_code%5D=EASTER24 133 [10] https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/books/bad-writing/ 134 [11] https://store.baldurbjarnason.com/buy/ec7bf9dd-91cc-4ccd-a000-6f7703a91892?checkout%5Bdiscount_code%5D=EASTER24 135 [12] https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/courses/yellow/ 136 [13] https://store.baldurbjarnason.com/buy/bf8b317a-e8e1-48aa-8ef3-289a7be6c6f7?enabled=318423&checkout%5Bdiscount_code%5D=EASTER24 137 [14] https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/links-10/ 138 [15] https://softwarecrisis.dev/ 139 [18] https://toot.cafe/@baldur 140 [19] https://twitter.com/fakebaldur