i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
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@eniko But then the boss would have fewer people to manage, and be unable to justify his job. Most software changes are about employment for engineers, not necessity. Grr.
As a software engineer I want computer languages and frameworks that stay stable for decades rather than have a new release every year that obsoletes old programs and requires a rewrite. But I don't get to have that :(.
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i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
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@eniko I'm genuinely considering starting l collection of Android apps with the ethos off "The UI does! Not! Fucking! Change!"
Any feature additions are purely optional and off by default
No nag screens to promote the new stuff
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@badtux @eniko I actually had to re-write large chunks of a program I wrote for a client because Haskell's ncurses wrapper just kind of... stopped being a thing.
Fortunately, I never liked ncurses to begin with and had abstracted much of it away. The code I'd written was fairly easy to retrofit into brick instead.
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i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
@eniko can we also get mobile operating systems that get more optimized and less resource hungry with every update so that devices can run for 10+ years before becoming obsolete?
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i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
@eniko Product: What's this ticket for, this one you're working on, it doesn't seen to be delivering any new feature? Why are we doing it?
Devs: It lets us delete a couple of thousand lines of no-longer-used code. Which will then no longer need to be maintained, tested, documented, ect ect.
Product: Great! That's what we like to hear!
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i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
Hear hear!
I'm pretty tired of downloading some 100 MB every week for Signal desktop for minor changes. And did you see how the changelog in /usr/share/doc looks like for Signal-desktop on Linux each time ? Yeah, whatever, Signal! 🤬 #signal
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@eniko can we also get mobile operating systems that get more optimized and less resource hungry with every update so that devices can run for 10+ years before becoming obsolete?
@themipper @eniko can we also get mobile operating systems, in general? Or mobile form-factor devices that are actual computers?
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@eniko But then the boss would have fewer people to manage, and be unable to justify his job. Most software changes are about employment for engineers, not necessity. Grr.
As a software engineer I want computer languages and frameworks that stay stable for decades rather than have a new release every year that obsoletes old programs and requires a rewrite. But I don't get to have that :(.
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Hear hear!
I'm pretty tired of downloading some 100 MB every week for Signal desktop for minor changes. And did you see how the changelog in /usr/share/doc looks like for Signal-desktop on Linux each time ? Yeah, whatever, Signal! 🤬 #signal
@regendans No such problem with @delta fortunately.
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i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
@eniko Yes, please, still and forever. This is the phrasing I couldn't quite figure out.
https://pdx.social/@a/115967994307784786 -
i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
@eniko Currently, my favourite app is Out-Run, and I think it's basically been abandoned by the developer.
https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/out-run/id1477511092
(Yes, that's probably not great for security vulnerability reasons..
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i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
@eniko What you don’t add is genuinely more important than what you do.
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i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
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@alice oh I'm so glad to hear you like them
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@regendans @delta I just wish I knew more people in my social circles who either already use it or are willing to try it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I think the best way to run a software product company is for the entire management team to work one day a week, or month.
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i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place so do i. what you're describing sounds a lot like the unix philosophy. (do one thing and do it well)
i'm in the same boat as a lot of windows users rn. i want to switch to BSD, but i need linux for video games
