Personal software tools

Tools built by one person, designed around their own needs, an Audience of one.

As Robin Sloan puts it, programming as home-cooking.

Ton Zjilstra extends the thinking to suggest that the sweet spot for personal software is code that is adapted not just to the owner’s personality but which sits contextually within their network, and has a potential to federate.

See also

• Digging out Diigo notes
• Expanding Digger to work with Hypothes.is
• Personal Software (Tom Zjilstra)
• Personal Software v factory-produced software (Matt Webb)
• Making all the things (Rev. Dan Catt)