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 Same, and also not kidding. I would rather have a group of three or four well-compensated maintainers who know the codebase very well (+ newer contributors they can afford to & have time to help teach/train) releasing security and bug fixes, with, maybe *one* feature release every year or two and a clear 'it's done'/feature complete state after which it's just bug fixes and maintenence/porting.
@miss_rodent @eniko You want ANATHEM. It’s okay. I would prefer ANATHEM over whatever hellscape this is.
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@miss_rodent @eniko You want ANATHEM. It’s okay. I would prefer ANATHEM over whatever hellscape this is.
@janxdevil @eniko The Neal Stephenson novel?
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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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i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
@eniko I'm ready for "move slow and make sure things don't break" app development again
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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 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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@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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i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
@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 of be 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
@eniko speaking of which, I finally bought Kitsune Tails and Midboss last week—they're both a lot of fun
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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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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.
(Yes, that's probably not great for security vulnerability reasons..
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@regendans No such problem with @delta fortunately.
@RandamuMaki @delta Yes, indeed. Very few software updates with DeltaChat and they appear to be a great team doing good things.
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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.
