I agree with the ethos of the article entirely, I think. I personally love taking an organic and experimental and highly incremental approach to pretty much everything.

I feel like the word “putter” has some connotations associated with it that make it misplaced in the article, though. I looked it up in the M-W dictionary and I think that the appropriate definition was the verb:

1: to move or act aimlessly or idly

2: to work at random: tinker

And the “especially” part of the definition of tinker has “unskilled or experimental manner” in it.

Experimental I can get behind. Organic, not necessarily pre-meditated, even. But unskilled? I think that is not what is being aimed at here. This is careful, painstaking work, with attention to details.

A minor quibble to be sure. I still don’t actually know what bearblog.dev is but it must be some kind of place for devs at small software shops to write about their work is my guess, based on the two or three posts I’ve read on the domain name. I’ve enjoyed them all so far.