# Birdcage liners – Joel on Software

<https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2018/01/12/birdcage-liners/>

- Host: [joelonsoftware.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/joelonsoftware.com/)
- Saved: January 12, 2018 (2018-01-12T15:49:24Z)
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## What Jamie wrote

[Joel Spolsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Spolsky) weighs in on writing software with ethics and meaning. 

> As software developers and designers, we have a responsibility to the world to think these things through carefully and design software that makes the world better, or, at least, no worse than it started out. 

👏

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT36: Weekly Thing for January 13, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/36/), Links 📌

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## Elsewhere

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