When is there Beauty in Tech?

When is there beauty in tech? As a programmer, I see so much ugliness. Confusing UX, slow automation, unaddressed tech debt. But it’s also worth pausing and reflecting on when tech is beautiful, and I believe it can be.

I find beauty when tech when what I want becomes effortless. When I can think a thought and have it become reality instantaneously.

I experience beauty when I hop around text with Vim, when I type effortlessly on dvorak, when I submit a github PR the author responds, when I find a cool article on my phone share it with my friends on signal in two clicks, when tests break and I know why and how to fix them, when I open up a music playlist for the 100th time, when I open up a document and the formatting just works, when I program in Go.