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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posts on mastodon can't blow up they said
mastodon has low engagement they said
@eniko give them what they want and they’ll turn up..
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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
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
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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
️I should add that my android phone can do this, but only with a tiny list of not-devious options that are all worse than WordStar.
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@eniko Quite honestly, I'd generally be happy with a piece of software that gets bugfixes and nothing else. The number of time some arbitrary update changes the UI for no reason and throws my whole workflow off...
@BasiliskXVIII @eniko It seems like Remember The Milk might be in this state.
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@eniko @pouncy_panda i instantly knew the perfect image for this and knew it had to be done (i used deathgenerator.com)
@maia @eniko @pouncy_panda @jalefkowit@vmst.io cc @foone thought you might appreciate this usage
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I should add that my android phone can do this, but only with a tiny list of not-devious options that are all worse than WordStar.
and I would be remiss not to add that #Emacs has lasted over four decades on this sum-of-small-parts philosophy although, here again, app writers don't always implement this way. Like software devs, they see all the includes and packages pulled in, yet only rarely think gee what if MY work was pull-in-able?
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@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?@EndlessMason @maia @pouncy_panda I don't know but maybe @GoblinHellion does
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@eniko @pouncy_panda i instantly knew the perfect image for this and knew it had to be done (i used deathgenerator.com)
@maia @eniko @pouncy_panda That's the second smallest application I've ever seen!
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@EndlessMason @maia @pouncy_panda I don't know but maybe @GoblinHellion does
@eniko @EndlessMason @maia @pouncy_panda hahahaha this is the best question ever. Definitely ask the lady to draw them manually. If they say they have a square pixel needle they are lying to you and you should probably run away?
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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 We were once taught in computer science to attempt to refine our code to tight, elegant, complete solutions. Very small chunks of software that were complete and conceptually clear. Early on, that was required because the memory and storage resources were strictly limited. When did we decide that just because the limits were off, our coding should be complex, nasty, unreadable, and should suck?
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@daviddoes @datarama @eniko I am of the generation that built our own crystal radios using a bit of mineral rock or anthracite coal. But I should not have to build my own fucking toaster to make toast without an app!
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@eniko We were once taught in computer science to attempt to refine our code to tight, elegant, complete solutions. Very small chunks of software that were complete and conceptually clear. Early on, that was required because the memory and storage resources were strictly limited. When did we decide that just because the limits were off, our coding should be complex, nasty, unreadable, and should suck?
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@alice oh I'm so glad to hear you like them
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@maia @eniko @pouncy_panda
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@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
Similar content, and adjacent in theme ( ? if that's the right term ) certainly not verbatim.
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@banjofox @eldersea @maia @eniko @pouncy_panda
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@banjofox @eldersea @maia @eniko @pouncy_panda
Wasn't that guy famously wrong?The one in the painting?
I have no idea.Doesn't really have any affect on how much I like that meme format.
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The one in the painting?
I have no idea.Doesn't really have any affect on how much I like that meme format.
@banjofox @eldersea @maia @eniko @pouncy_panda
Possibly not "famously wrong", just ...
> Freedom of Speech depicts a scene of a 1942 Arlington town meeting in which Jim Edgerton, the lone dissenter to the town selectmen's announced plans to build a new school, as the old one had burned down,[9] was accorded the floor as a matter of protocol.[10] Edgerton supported the rebuilding process but was concerned about the tax burden of the proposal, as his family farm had been ravaged by disease.[11] A memory of this scene struck Rockwell as an excellent fit for illustrating "freedom of speech", and inspired him to use his Vermont neighbors as models for the entire Four Freedoms series.[12][13]
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@banjofox @eldersea @maia @eniko @pouncy_panda
Possibly not "famously wrong", just ...
> Freedom of Speech depicts a scene of a 1942 Arlington town meeting in which Jim Edgerton, the lone dissenter to the town selectmen's announced plans to build a new school, as the old one had burned down,[9] was accorded the floor as a matter of protocol.[10] Edgerton supported the rebuilding process but was concerned about the tax burden of the proposal, as his family farm had been ravaged by disease.[11] A memory of this scene struck Rockwell as an excellent fit for illustrating "freedom of speech", and inspired him to use his Vermont neighbors as models for the entire Four Freedoms series.[12][13]
