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 13, 2025 🔗
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.

-- John Gall


Bluesky 8    Mastodon 3
🕑 Jan 12, 2025 🔗
Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/01/04/cruft/

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42599102


Bluesky 6    Mastodon 5
🕑 Jan 11, 2025 🔗
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

-- Alan Perlis



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