# Going "Write-Only"

DevFeed: [Going "Write-Only"](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/going-write-only-21467.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://begriffs.com/posts/2015-04-20-going-write-only.html>)

Published: 2015-04-20T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Joe Nelson](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/joe-nelson.md>)

Topics: [Haskell](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/haskell.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [Git](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/git.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [math](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/math.md>)

Tags: [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [git](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/git.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [version-control](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/version-control.md>), [writing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/writing.md>)

## AI overview

The author reflects on creating worthwhile things that endure, contrasting the fragility and maintenance demands of software with the durability of writing, mathematics, music, and visual art. Drawing on Joey Hess, _why the lucky stiff, and Thoreau, the article argues for reconsidering how one directs attention and pursues meaningful work.

## Source excerpt

2015-04-20 Joey Hess inspires me. He lives in a cabin and programs Haskell on a drastically under-powered netbook. He harvests all his electricity from the sun with a homemade electrical system. Joey has designed his computing life to be highly distributed like the git version control he loves.