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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14I'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.
Learning basic electronics by building fireflies
https://a64.in/posts/learning-basic-electronics-by-building-fireflies/
"It is the opinion of the Board that Large Language Models (LLMs), herein referred to as Slop Generators, are unsuitable for use as software engineering tools, particularly in the Free and Open Source Software movement."
"Great news, boss! We invented this new tool that allows nontechnical people to write code in English! Now anyone can deploy applications, and we don't have to hire all those expensive developers!"
"Wow, show it to me!"
"OK here it is. We call it COBOL."
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: binding keys to commands [1 min read]
- Shell timesaver: mkdir and cd combined [1 min read]
- Simple JavaScript template engine by (ab)using template literals [1 min read]
