John Athayde

John Athayde is a designer and developer who spends his days fighting bad coding practices in the Rails view layer. He runs Meticulous, a product design & branding consultancy that has been shipping with Rails since 1.0. He also is a partner in Ocufii, a startup focused on improving safety through movement notifications. He lives on a small permaculture farm outside of Charlottesville where he can garden and play in the dirt with his wife and four children, chickens, goats, and dairy cow.

Learning from Permaculture: Sustainable Software Development

I’ve farmed with permaculture since 2013 and designed & built software for 20+ years. Turns out the same principles apply: observe before acting, produce no waste, value the margins. Let’s explore what the garden can teach us about building software that lasts.