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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🕑 Aug 18, 2025

LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-coding-agents-security-nightmare

📁 Links 📁 Programming

🕑 Aug 10, 2025

Debian 13 is out: https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250809

I've been using Debian as my main OS both on servers and desktops for over 20 years now. It's one of the very rare things in this world that has stayed consistently good throughout all those years.

📁 Links 📁 Linux

🕑 Aug 5, 2025

There is no secret herbal medicine that prevents all disease sitting out in the open if you just follow the right Facebook groups. There is no AI coding revolution available if you just start vibing. You are not missing anything. Trust yourself. You are enough.

https://colton.dev/blog/curing-your-ai-10x-engineer-imposter-syndrome/

📁 Links 📁 Programming

🕑 Jul 31, 2025

I'm using this shell shortcut a lot - you can use Alt+. to insert the last argument from your previous command into the command you're currently typing.

📁 Linux

Popular wiki/blog pages:

Modern Web in Numbers [2 min read]
Functional core, imperative shell [3 min read]
Async Race Conditions (on JavaScript example) [3 min read]
Linux: Working With Daemons [2 min read]
Simple, reliable, fast (in that order) [2 min read]

Recently added/updated pages:

Understanding Simplicity [1 min read]
POSIX Shell: Referencing variables [1 min read]
Programming languages with 1-based array indexes [1 min read]
Resume Driven Development (RDD) [2 min read]
Setting up a simple SOCKS proxy tunnel over SSH [3 min read]
Shell timesaver: mkdir and cd combined [1 min read]
Simple JavaScript template engine by (ab)using template literals [1 min read]
Shell timesaver: binding keys to commands [1 min read]

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