OneThingWell.dev | Small and simple is beautiful
Modern software development is beyond broken. Popular practices of resume-driven development, cargo-cult programming, and piling layers upon layers of failed abstractions are only making matters worse.
OneThingWell.dev is a digital garden (a custom wiki/blog combination) on these and various other software development issues. Simplicity is a prerequisite for reliability.
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https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/be-mindful-of-what-you-make-easy/
The efficiency of the code decreases with an increase in the number of people working on the program. The most efficient programs are written by a single person.
-- Charles Simonyi
The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. The only question is whether to plan in advance to build a throwaway, or to promise to deliver the throwaway to customers.
-- Fred Brooks
🕑 Feb 28, 2025
3,200% CPU utilization
"I always thought of race conditions as corrupting the data or deadlocking. I never though it could cause performance issues. But it makes sense, you could corrupt the data in a way that creates an infinite loop."
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