# Writing Toy Software Is A Joy | Joshua Barretto

<https://www.jsbarretto.com/blog/software-is-joy/>

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## What Jamie wrote

I love the Feynman quote here "What I cannot create, I do not understand", and I love the spirit of creating for fun and learning. Most of my projects scratch an itch like this for me.

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- [WT324: Weekly Thing 324 / Agents, Shortcuts, Joy](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/324/), Briefly

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