The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Yeah I just moved to BookWyrm, but was checking out StoryGraph today as well. Looks interesting, but I’ll probably stick to BookWyrm if StroryGraph isn’t federated.
Watch the movie “Contact” for a good depiction of this.