{"id":99035,"date":"2018-06-18T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=99035"},"modified":"2019-03-13T00:42:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T07:42:20","slug":"20180618-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20180618-00\/?p=99035","title":{"rendered":"Woodworking, the opposite of software development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While <a HREF=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/\">waiting for the BoltBus<\/a>, I met a former software developer, who said that he&#8217;s now a carpenter. Specifically, he makes furniture out of wood, so a more precise term for his type of work would be something like <i>woodworking<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>He says he quit software because customers would keep making change requests on short notice, even for features he was pretty sure they&#8217;d never actually use. <\/p>\n<p>I asked him if his new job has the same problem. <\/p>\n<p>He said, no, it&#8217;s the opposite. <\/p>\n<p>Nobody asks for new features for their bench or table or whatever. They show him a picture of a 100-year-old table and say &#8220;Make me that.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, a former customer will call and say, &#8220;Hey, remember me? You made a table for me three years ago.&#8221; Do they want to modify the table? Nope. &#8220;Can you make one exactly like it for my sister?&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to self-reported data from one person who could have just made it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-99035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>According to self-reported data from one person who could have just made it up.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}