OneThingWell.dev | Digital Garden
Modern software development is beyond broken and popular practices like 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) mostly focused on these issues and exploring simpler, saner alternatives.
Software Development: The Good Parts (microblog)
🕑 Jan 16, 2025
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
-- E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful
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If you own a computing device outright, you should be able to make any level of software modification you desire. Hardware manufacturers should not be allowed to absolutely restrict distribution of software to their own channels under the guise of safety.
https://medhir.com/blog/right-to-root-access
🕑 Jan 14, 2025
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Greppability is an underrated code metric
https://morizbuesing.com/blog/greppability-code-metric/
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