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    Story: Software That Doesn't Suck With Jim Blandy

    CoRecursive: Coding Stories · Jul 1, 2020 · 37 min
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    Building Subversion Software is just the tool and it should get out of your way. In this episode, we will discuss Jim Blandy's insights on how to build and recognize improvements for a great developer tool and find out how he approached the question: "What's the worst software that you use every day?" "Everybody likes imaginary code because imaginary code is always perfect." -Jim Blandy "You…

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