i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding

[jabwd@mastodon.social]

@eniko I miss the days where getting an update was like christmas. Now I mumble to myself 'what did you mess up this time..'

[woo@fosstodon.org]

@eniko And fewer applications. Today I learned that Ubuntu now has Snapshot, as well as screenshot but that Snapshot shows up as Camera, though it didn't when it was called Cheese. This happened 2 years ago.

[kctipton@mas.to]

@eniko Agreed! Updates are becoming an annoyance, like a swarm of gnats.

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

posts on mastodon can't blow up they said

mastodon has low engagement they said

[pouncy_panda@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@eniko looks like copying being the highest form of flattery is also possible in the fediverse https://donotsta.re/objects/67cb9b8d-ff23-4e10-8af3-f26ec1c50ac3

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@pouncy_panda eh, that one's a bit different from mine so i wouldn't jump to conclusions

though even if someone copied it verbatim, in this case i'd probably just be happy to see this thought spreading further

[pouncy_panda@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@eniko lets see how long this takes to become a meme then

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@pouncy_panda hopefully someone shops it into a video game character image

[me@social.jlamothe.net]

@eniko God my poor server (a laptop in a closet) would probably just explode if I made a post with that much engagement.

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@me i'm glad i decided i wasn't going to self host >_>

[maia@mastodon.art]

@eniko @pouncy_panda i instantly knew the perfect image for this and knew it had to be done (i used deathgenerator.com)

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@maia @pouncy_panda sorry in advance about your mentions

[eldersea@expressional.social]

@maia @eniko @pouncy_panda
Ooh this inspired me to meme it in this format:

[polx@mastodon.online]

@eniko the fun thing is that even the non-techies want that!
But instead some racers or people who only look at the competition decide we must deliver faster...

[gbargoud@masto.nyc]

@eniko

We really need to go back to programs and libraries written with the Unix philosophy in mind

[gbargoud@masto.nyc]

@travis_nice @datarama @eniko

I don't know, I'm pretty happy with the calendar feature on my fridge

[endlessmason@hachyderm.io]

@maia @eniko @pouncy_panda
Hey, so, when they do tattoos of pixel art, do they use big square needles, or do i just ask the lady to make the squares manually?

[colinstu@birdbutt.com]

@eniko give them what they want and they’ll turn up..

[cubeofcheese@mstdn.social]

@datarama @eniko if an app connects to the internet, it should maximize functionality without an internet connection

[teledyn@mstdn.ca]

@eniko

the concept, way back, was The Subroutine, a compact self-contained and hopefully tested thing with inputs and outputs, as had happened in Electronics shortly before where an ocean of incompatible constructs became IC's with standard values, infinitely combine-able. This was the notion in Unix, a tinker-toy toolbox, programmable LEGO, but the tech for all this pipeworks was too much for the early home computers, so you got MSDOS instead, and MS lock-ins on "compatible components" (for your security of course)

Linux then brought the clunky unix mindset to the PC, but quickly fell into copying The Everything App like the Big Boys, trademark logos, t-shirts, booth-babes, their difference was at least they intended to be 'interoperable' between these apps, like the MS or IOS consoles, but it was still between monolithic EverythingBut Apps.

How nice it would be to have one (favourite) editor you know backwards and forwards and EVERY textbox you see uses it, not WordStar ️