How Making a Fountain Pen Made Me a Better Developer

Any type of process can benefit from task optimisation (reducing cost, improving consistency, and making progress easier to repeat). I recently started making fountain pens as a personal side project. What surprised me is how much of the mindset I use in software development applies to a completely different craft. I’ve found myself using many of the same principles: Building a roadmap: woodturning → lathe accreditation → design in Autodesk → material/component research Thinking in product desig