We use Terraform a lot at my work. There's been an interesting learning curve as I've gone from no knowledge of it, to using it in production. I had a bit of trouble figuring out a conceptual model - a way of thinking about what it was doing - that worked for me.

Eventually I found one.

I worked a lot in my career on The Geometer's Sketchpad, an educational geometry visualization and interaction desktop application. Sketchpad had a long and useful life, finally retired as a product in 2019. Twenty-five years! It's still in use as an authoring environment for the HTML5 web viewer.

I'm not quite ready for a manifesto. Still gathering my own thoughts, and trying to understand software testing terminology and methodologies. But - feels like there is a fair amount of confusion about how it's supposed to work even in the best case.