Whistling in the Dark

One of my students mentioned building a web application for his mother, a schoolteacher, to keep track of her class. If you were working alone, unpaid, and in your spare time, there's no way you could make an application that would satisfy the general and complete needs of schoolteachers everywhere. You could make one for your mom, though.

There is so much truth in this essay on situated software and the potential fallacy of the web school of program design that I'm still stunned.