Design PhilosophyIf you are one of the lucky people that just happen to check out OctoMY™for your project then you can blissfully move along. Nothing to see for you here :) However if you are planning on becoming a contributor, this page is like totally super important. The nature of open source.Developers all know that a day job in IT often means working for a pointy haired boss. If you are lucky, you work for an organization with strong technical leadership, and observe less of this reality. But in the end any for-profit organization will have some constraints that affect you.
To any company, IT and software development is just a tool to meet the current business goals, and that means that developers are tools to be used as well. It is expected that you as a developer do what your boss asks of you in return for a pay check. What most developers also know is that when they get home from work, there is a small window of opportunity awaiting them, between the family and house chores and bedtime. Glimmering like a forgotten gemstone in the dirt, it allures many developers into the mystery of the night... In this window all the restraints of the business world all but dissipate and suddenly you are in full control. With the whole internet at your finger tips, and the infinite sea of time ahead (albeit chopped up in annoyingly small chunks), you now suddenly command the mission. Now you can make anything! Yes, you can set yourself a goal, a timeline, and other restraints. You can even work towards becoming the boss of your very own company. But the beauty is that you can also decide to just pour all of your midnight energy into perfecting 10 lines of meaningless but poetic code. You can dedicate yourself to coding as an art form or coding as pure entertainment. | My midnight energy
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