Open Source hot take: A software project is allowed to be *done*.

[coursiv@mastodon.social]

@tante Stable behaviour is also useful for people learning a tool. A tutorial that still matches the interface a year later saves a kind of work that rarely appears in a feature announcement. Maintenance can preserve that value without asking everyone to relearn the same task.

[gnosticstreetsweeper@mastodon.zip]

@tante Case in point; XClock. I've been having a ton of fun customizing my cwm setup on OpenBSD with the added challenge of keeping non-base software to an absolute minimum. A recent problem I had to solve was having a convenient clock on my desktop.

With, admittedly, a lot of fiddling I have something that works great and feels like mine. More importantly it makes you reckon with what software can really give you and how much complexity and "features" you really need.

[rustynova@mastodon.social]

@tante yeah I agree... But I just had a great idea on what to add and oh fuck this is never going to be done

[grandthefturkel@mastodon.social]

@tante As someone forced to use Jira, GitHub, Slack, and VS Code for work, I wish more companies would get this memo. These are all products that were feature-complete over a decade ago, yet get continually "upgraded" to be noisier, sloppier, less stable, and hungrier for my precious RAM

[nutsling@jorts.horse]

@tante arch users: no nO NO

[guillotine_jones@beige.party]

@tante
My prayer:
Pleez allow this software product [fill in the blank] to be done. It meets all my needs and I am now sufficiently familiar with its workings that I can do the things I need to do with it, and not at all interested in doing the things that I'm not interested in doing, and I can tell the difference.

[isaackuo@spacey.space]

@dashdsrdash @MisuseCase @ArneBab @tante I guess I just disagree about whether or not the word "intuition" or "intuitive" is imprecise language.

I think they are well defined. The fact that intuition is shaped by learned things is just ... part of our reality.

[oraculix@ieji.de]

@tante
YES, I'd like to have some `cp`, `ls` and `cat`, but re-written in vibe-coded Rust, please.

They played us for absolute fools.

[tante@tldr.nettime.org]

@oraculix I mean many of the rust rewrites are also about stripping restrictive licenses. Taking GPLed code and rewriting/generating it as BSD licensed

[oraculix@ieji.de]

@tante Fair point. I still don't have BSD licensing much on my radar, so all these recent rewrites seemed a little odd to me.

[johnnythan@tuebingen.network]

@blogdiva

Exactly my thoughts on Drupal. Thank you.

[vantablack2000@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@tante I mean makes sense. Some things just do one thing and do it well.

With the way tech is massively changing I would say you have to battle adding features and doing Maintenance anyway since if the project doesn't run well the features have no point. Calling it done and focusing solely on maintenance makes the decision easier.

[gwenverbsnouns@mastodon.social]

@tante it was actually pretty cool when software was primarily distributed on, well, hardware

plus it was fun to flip through my book of CDs. like oh I haven't used starry night pro in a while, let's spend a couple hours exploring the galaxy

[kayla@revpara.onl]

@tante i think this should become normalized.

[federico3@oldbytes.space]

@tante @oraculix That's quite nasty and one more reason to stay away from those rewrites.

[cford@toot.thoughtworks.com]

@tante Totally, though I think you need to take care about what you model with your software. If you model the world, it will change and you'll have to keep us.

[spacelifeform@infosec.exchange]

@tante

true. it still functions as expected. No patches needed.

[lucycelestia@transfem.social]

@tante@tldr.nettime.org Linux games seem to understand this very well. A few months ago I installed Extreme Tux Racer, a game I fondly remember playing in my childhood like 15 years ago. It is exactly the same still, either hasn't been updated or only just enough to keep it working. Either way it is lovely :3

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@strypey ooooh. thanks for the heads up.

[su_liam@mas.to]

@strypey @hbons @tante Setting boundaries can help avoid bloat.