About

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My name is Avdi Grimm. I’m a husband, father, and software cultivator living in southern Pennsylvania. This is my software development blog. I also run Wide Teams, a blog and podcast for geographically dispersed teams. If you are on Twitter, you can follow me at @avdi.

I am the proprietor of ShipRise LLC, a software consultancy. If you have a hard programming problem to solve, or are looking for some help managing a distributed software development team, please get in touch.

And if you are ever in the York, PA area, you should come work with me for a day at York Coworking!

The title of this blog is taken from a quote by Larry Wall in the Camel Book:

We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

The three virtues are explained as follows:

Laziness

The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don’t have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great virtue of a programmer. Also hence, this book. See also impatience and hubris.

Impatience

The anger you feel when the computer is being lazy. This makes you write programs that don’t just react to your needs, but actually anticipate them. Or at least pretend to. Hence, the second great virtue of a programmer. See also laziness and hubris.

Hubris

Excessive pride, the sort of thing Zeus zaps you for. Also the quality that makes you write (and maintain) programs that other people won’t want to say bad things about. Hence, the third great virtue of a programmer. See also laziness and impatience.

You can find out more about me on my home page: http://avdi.org