A common focus of software development companies is to define everything as code (text). Rather than using a graphical interface to make some change, it’s often better to define the change as code. This enables the change to be reviewed by teammates, tracked through time, documented as part of a unit of work, tested for correctness and standards compliance, proven in a testing playground, and finally executed in a controlled way that ensures positive progress.

This gives rise to phrases like “infrastructure as code”, where the servers used by a company are all defined and configured using code. Creating a new server just requires increasing a “count” integer. Increasing memory on a database can be tried in a testing environment before attempting it on a production server.

This appraoch is required for developing complex systems because it increases objective quality and ensures that important goals are met.

It stands to reason that if we want to be successful in our quest to improve our government, we should attempt to express it as code.

This allows us to review our government, improve it over time, commission its creation and refinement, document best practices, test them, and actually determine it.

I’m gearing up to launch the https://freetheinter.net/ project in order to explore some possibilities in expressing government and freedom using code.

Updated: 28 May, 2022
Created: 26 November, 2021