John Ohno
1 min readNov 17, 2018

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I’m in favor of breaking down artificial barriers that make modifying applications artificially foreboding for non-programmers.

Artisinal coding is a pleasant side effect of the grey areas between user and programmer becoming accessible: low-skill programming positions become deprofessionalized, inflated programmer salaries drop, and dubious industries that cash in on dreams of reaching those inflated salaries (like coding bootcamps) cease to be profitable. The number of programmers increase, simple programming becomes common and even expected among non-programmers, and general software quality increases. Meanwhile, professional programmers have an easier time.

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John Ohno
John Ohno

Written by John Ohno

Resident hypertext crank. Author of Big and Small Computing: Trajectories for the Future of Software. http://www.lord-enki.net

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