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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πŸ•‘ Feb 10, 2025
Bluesky 29 (1) Mastodon 3
Premature abstraction is as bad as premature optimization.

-- Luciano Ramalho


πŸ•‘ Feb 8, 2025
Bluesky 32 (2) Mastodon 10
I've never been a lover of existing code. Code by itself almost rots and it’s gotta be rewritten. Even when nothing has changed, for some reason it rots.

-- Ken Thompson


πŸ•‘ Feb 7, 2025
Bluesky 47 (2) Mastodon 11
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

-- Niklaus Wirth


πŸ•‘ Feb 6, 2025
Bluesky 19 Mastodon 6
The real problem with throwaway code comes when it isn't thrown away.

-- Joseph Yoder



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