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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🕑 Apr 27, 2025
Bluesky 9 Mastodon 3
Cognitive load is what matters

https://minds.md/zakirullin/cognitive


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

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


🕑 Apr 25, 2025
Bluesky 50 Mastodon 18
One of the greatest joys in computer programming is discovering a new, faster, more efficient algorithm for doing something — particularly if a lot of well-respected people have come up with worse solutions.

-- Danny Hillis



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