The Worrisome Banality of Modern Software

Dr Stuart Woolley
CodeX
Published in
4 min readJun 16, 2022

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When did software products become so bland and unexciting and, more to the point, why?

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These days I really find it pretty hard to get excited about software.

I mean, it’s not at all unusual to be completely unimpressed with things like UML, agile, design patterns, or yet another [JavaScript|Python] library that solves a problem that’s already been solved by a hundred…

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Dr Stuart Woolley
CodeX

Worries about the future. Way too involved with software. Likes coffee, maths, and . Would prefer to be in academia. SpaceX, Twitter, and Overwatch fan.