Author

Henrik Vance

Henrik writes about software and tools with a measured, essayistic voice — the long arc of software development, the discipline of choosing well, the strange culture that produces and consumes digital tools. Twelve years as a working developer with substantial side as a writer.

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Choices

On the Discipline of Choosing Software Well

Software choices accumulate into substantial capability or substantial burden over years. The discipline of choosing well differs from the popular pattern of…

Henrik Vance May 4, 2026 5 min read

Culture

On Software Culture, and What It Shapes

Software culture substantially shapes what software gets built and how. The cultural assumptions of software work are mostly invisible to practitioners but…

Henrik Vance May 4, 2026 5 min read

Tools

On Tools, and the Discipline of Choosing Few

The proliferation of software tools produces a culture of constant tool optimization. Practitioners who choose few tools and master them deeply often…

Henrik Vance May 4, 2026 5 min read

Software

On Software That Endures, and What Makes It Last

Some software outlives its creators by decades. Most software is forgotten within a few years. The patterns that distinguish durable software from…

Henrik Vance May 4, 2026 5 min read