OneThingWell.dev | Small and simple is beautiful
Modern software development is beyond broken. Popular practices of resume-driven development, cargo-cult programming, and piling layers upon layers of failed abstractions are only making matters worse.
OneThingWell.dev is a digital garden (a custom wiki/blog combination) on these and various other software development issues. Simplicity is a prerequisite for reliability.
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2If you own a computing device outright, you should be able to make any level of software modification you desire. hardware manufacturers should not be allowed to absolutely restrict distribution of software to their own channels under the guise of safety.
The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything
Using zip bombs to protect your server
Popular wiki/blog pages:
- Modern Web in Numbers [2 min read]
- Functional core, imperative shell [3 min read]
- Async Race Conditions (on JavaScript example) [3 min read]
- Linux: Working With Daemons [2 min read]
- Simple, reliable, fast (in that order) [2 min read]
Recently added/updated pages:
- Understanding Simplicity [1 min read]
- POSIX Shell: Referencing variables [1 min read]
- Programming languages with 1-based array indexes [1 min read]
- Resume Driven Development (RDD) [2 min read]
- Setting up a simple SOCKS proxy tunnel over SSH [3 min read]
- Shell timesaver: binding keys to commands [1 min read]
- Shell timesaver: mkdir and cd combined [1 min read]
- Simple JavaScript template engine by (ab)using template literals [1 min read]
