I think it’s been too long. I think you agree.

Lately, my head has been bludgeoned with the lack of simplicity in several places. It’s almost every time the same problem: duplicate storage of the same information without a proper system in place for keeping all the information in sync. Shit hits the fan when one system can store some information, ie. postal adress and living adress, (pardon the Dutchness of those words), but another system only can keep track of a living adress, and sends the mail to that adress. It also messes up when the system that is supposed to the keep the information in sync fails to do so, or does only when first entering the information (not when later on you edit the information). This happens too often and is clearly a result of bad, especially old, design: “We want to have a program that replaces are paper-database”.

I understand they couldn’t share a paper-database across the country, but now you can share a digital database across a country with great ease! So please, please Dutch government, when you finally form the coalition government, do something about duplicate storage of the same variables. Thank you.