{"id":15570,"date":"2008-08-20T11:35:07","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T11:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/08\/software-whiskey.html"},"modified":"2008-08-20T11:35:07","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T11:35:07","slug":"software_whiskey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/20\/software_whiskey-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Software & Whiskey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Colbert’s remarks on his job<\/a> remind me of the process of developing Photoshop: <\/p>\n

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"We often discuss satire \u2014 the sort of thing he does and to a certain extent I do \u2014 as distillery," Mr. Colbert continued. "You have an enormous amount of material, and you have to distill it to a syrup by the end of the day. So much of it is a hewing process, chipping away at things that aren’t the point or aren\u2019t the story or aren’t the intention. Really it’s that last couple of drops you\u2019re distilling that makes all the difference. It isn\u2019t that hard to get a ton of corn into a gallon of sour mash, but to get that gallon of sour mash down to that one shot of pure whiskey takes patience" as well as "discipline and focus."<\/p>\n

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We’ll never, ever lack good suggestions on what to do next, nor is it terribly hard to grab a wad and go work on them.  Given the vast number of customers and workflows Photoshop serves, however, it’s critical that the enhancements we make each serve a wide range of needs.  Finding the really transformative stuff–the fundamental architectural changes that’ll enable numerous other enhancements while standing the test of time–is the fun, aggravating, and ultimately rewarding part. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stephen Colbert’s remarks on his job remind me of the process of developing Photoshop:   "We often discuss satire \u2014 the sort of thing he does and to a certain extent I do \u2014 as distillery," Mr. Colbert continued. "You have an enormous amount of material, and you have to distill it to a syrup […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15570"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}