"Become close friends with the software you use all the time." That is a beautifully evocative phrase for a lovely idea, thank you for sharing.

If I may share an idea for which I don't have nearly as nice and succinct a summation, but I've come to view my personal computing environments through the lens of being a garden. I spend so much time within them, working, learning, playing and writing. I can see the different seasons of my life reflected through naming conventions, directory structures, scripts I've written and bookmarks I've long ignored. There are new things I want to try and explore in the spring when I hopefully have a bit more free time. I have planted seeds while children slept in my arms or in the next room, and I have enabled their dreams with the fruits of my labour. I would even say I have occasionally communed with the close and holy darkness on long, late nights.

In time everything I have created will return to dust, and probably no one will ever know this garden as I have. But it has still been a place of growth and blessing.