We Often Understand The Value of Things When They Are Not Around!

My 2 pennies on what that means for technology and life in general.

Recently while I was doing python development, my IDE started to show hiccups, useful and critical developer experience features such as class member suggestion, function parameter listing etc. stopped working. When it happened, I quickly understood how helpful where these features in enabling the train of thoughts to flow uninterrupted and with minimum drag.

Though the solution was pretty easy to implement once it was figured out (thank you! -Nicolas Oulianov), this made me pause and think for a moment and say - Oh, yeah, there was so much magic going on behind the scene of that, which I took for granted for so long! Some more such things are compression algorithms, SQL engines, computer program compilers.

Life has also a way of telling this to us. Think about the people that we were given, the people that we have met while we were swiftly movingthrough life on auto-pilot without any substancial appreciation for them.

Pause, take a moment to say thank you and ... never go back to the old ways. Be grateful.

This is a living list of things strictly in the form of software, which I happen to think about with gratitude.