“By comparison, having worked as a software developer for over a decade, the impact of the stuff I actually got paid to do seems underwhelming.”
Mammoth.js is 3,000 lines that turn Word documents into clean HTML. It was written on a Friday afternoon and has saved strangers untold hours since. The donations come to £1.15 a week. A decade of salaried work at companies with noble missions produced less. The industry pays for growth, not for usefulness.