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My Software North Star

June 03, 2026<br>min read • by<br>Loris Cro

When I make sofware, this is my sorted list of priorities:<br>Software should be useful to the end user and strive to become software you can love.<br>Software should be correct , as malfunctioning software detracts from the utility users can derive from it.<br>Software should be maintainable and efficient , in order to avoid wasting human and computational resources when trying to get more utility out of it.<br>It doesn’t matter if your blockchain has no bugs, if it’s a rugpull1.<br>It doesn’t matter if your language is memory-safe if you didn’t design for correctness and have no process that will eventually lead you to fixing all bugs.<br>It doesn’t matter if your software is a beautiful maze of abstractions, if it runs like shit and nobody is able to maintain it, let alone add new features.<br>Sometimes I run out of steam, sometimes I go down the wrong path, and some other times I deliberately take detours, but nobody can trick me into mistaking lesser stars for my true destination: I do care about my own developer experience, but only in the exact measure that it helps me deliver more software you can love that I and others can enjoy.<br>The ultimate goal is to maximize utility for the end user; everything else exists in service of it, and that’s my north star for making software.

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