https://bylly.dev/posts/Recent content in Posts on ByllyHugoen-us© ByllyMon, 22 Dec 2025 23:30:00 -0500https://bylly.dev/posts/software-developers-are-nonfiction-authors/Mon, 22 Dec 2025 23:30:00 -0500https://bylly.dev/posts/software-developers-are-nonfiction-authors/<p>As of October 2025, GitHub hosts over 180 million accounts and 1 billion contributions to public repositories. These repositories contain everything from <a href="https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode">code that does nothing</a>, to <a href="https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11?tab=readme-ov-file">code that landed Neil Armstrong on the moon</a>. Despite their differences, all of the code shares a common goal: to instruct a computer to perform a specific set of actions using a language it can understand. Rarely, though, do open source contributors intend for the computer to be their sole audience; they also write for others to understand and build upon their work. It can then be said that these contributors, all 180 million of them, are nonfiction authors.</p>