It’s a collection of wisdom written from someone named Lars Wirzenius who started his software development career decades ago and has seen it all.

• Take care of yourself, or else you’re no good to others.
• Useful software is too big to create alone, so your most important skill is the ability to collaborate.
• Write caveman code anyone can understand, unless complexity can be justified by measurably and consistently better performance.
• Do work in small chunks, and repeat.
• Diversity of perspective is important, or else you’ll end up accidentally making something that only works for a narrow slice of people.
• Know who the intended user is, and try to see things from their point of view.
• Developing software is political. Deal with it.
• Learn to write, and write stuff down.

Developing software is political. Deal with it.

I think this should be in big bolded letters. There are so many techbro chuds who will outright deny this and complain that FOSS is becoming too “woke” and is what drives me never to post in the Linux comm on lemmy dot ml.