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+title = "Things I Learnt The Hard Way - Intro"
+date = 2019-06-18
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+"Things I Learnt The Hard Way (In 30 Years of Software Development)" started
+as a simple sequence of toots (the same as "tweets", but outside Twitter) when
+I was thinking about a new presentation I could do.
+
+But why "a new presentation"?
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+I go around my state with a group called "Tchelinux": We usually go to
+universities and talk to people starting uni, explaining things about
+free/libre software and sometimes telling people about things they wouldn't
+normally see in the uni curriculum.
+
+One thing that annoys me is that there are very few presentations about "when
+things go wrong". All the presentations are either prototypes or tell the good
+stuff, and hide all the wrong things that could happen[^1]. Obviously, after
+working 30 years in the field of software development, I saw my fair share of
+things going wrong -- sometimes in unimaginable piles of crap -- and I thought
+"maybe that's something people would like to hear".
+
+And that's when the toot sequence started. Just before I noticed, I spent the
+whole day just posting this kind of stuff (fortunately, my pile of "incoming"
+was a bit empty at the time) and it had 30 points, plus addendums and a few
+explanation points. That's when I decided to group all them in a single post.
+
+All I thought when I grouped everything in a post was "this will make things
+easier for the people following the thread on Mastodon". But then the post
+appeared on Reddit. And Twitter. And HackerNews. And YCombinator. And none of
+those where mine.
+
+But here is the thing: Each point was limited by the toot size, which is 500
+characters. Sometimes that's not enough to expand the point, explain it
+properly and add some examples.
+
+And that's how the idea to write this "book" came to life.
+
+[^1]: Yup, I'm guilty of that too.