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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🕑 Jul 16, 2025
Bluesky 8 Mastodon 5
We are destroying software

https://antirez.com/news/145


🕑 Jul 16, 2025
Bluesky 11 Mastodon 45
Using zip bombs to protect your server

https://idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection


🕑 Jul 15, 2025
Bluesky 3 Mastodon 4
LLMs and the framing of inevitability

https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/


🕑 Jan 26, 2025
Bluesky 52 Mastodon 11
JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it.

-- Douglas Crockford



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