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•‘ May 26, 2025
Mastodon 3 (1)
This is really bad. EU is planning a new mass surveillance law that includes mandating data retention, built-in backdoors, sanctioning non-compliant services and is asking you for feedback.

EU citizens, please give them your feedback.

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1kvmguc/eu_is_planning_a_new_mass_surveillance_law_that/


πŸ•‘ May 21, 2025
Mastodon 2
How convenience kills curiosity

"[...] Those friction-filled experiences are nearly extinct now. We’ve optimized them away in the name of convenience, and something important has been lost in the transition."

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/how-convenience-kills-curiosity/


πŸ•‘ May 21, 2025
Bluesky 28 (3) Mastodon 3
Debugging time increases as a square of the program’s size.

-- Chris Wenham



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