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.


Bits (microblog)

πŸ•‘ May 17, 2025
Bluesky 5 Mastodon 16
The problem is that coding isn’t fun if all you can do is call things out of a library, if you can’t write the library yourself.

-- Donald Knuth


πŸ•‘ Apr 28, 2025
Bluesky 24 (1) Mastodon 1
I’ll throw away code as soon I want to add something to it and I get the feeling that what I have to do to add it is too hard.

-- Ken Thompson


πŸ•‘ Apr 27, 2025
Bluesky 15 Mastodon 3
Cognitive load is what matters

https://minds.md/zakirullin/cognitive


πŸ•‘ Apr 25, 2025
Bluesky 3 Mastodon 2
Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979)

https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm



Popular wiki/blog pages:

Recently added/updated pages:

More >