26 points | by ustad 4 hours ago ago
9 comments
I fully agree. I loathe slow software. I hate bloat. I love fast software. As a developer, I'm completely, even irrationally, obsessed with speed, performance optimization, and profiling. I wish more developers felt the same way.
No, no software is the best software.
BTW, the title should say "(2019)".
Best solution is no software, or as little code as possible. But that the best software is no software isn't very practical or actionable :)
Slop or not, I enjoyed reading it. And could relate.
This is slop; I stopped reading after this line:
> Fastness in software is like great margins in a book — makes you smile without necessarily knowing why.
The article is from 2019.
The slop is breaching temporal containment!
This is definitely not slop. I’ve followed Craig Mod’s work for a long time and he’s a prolific, talented, and very human writer.
What makes you think it is slop? The emdash?
I fully agree. I loathe slow software. I hate bloat. I love fast software. As a developer, I'm completely, even irrationally, obsessed with speed, performance optimization, and profiling. I wish more developers felt the same way.
No, no software is the best software.
BTW, the title should say "(2019)".
Best solution is no software, or as little code as possible. But that the best software is no software isn't very practical or actionable :)
Slop or not, I enjoyed reading it. And could relate.
This is slop; I stopped reading after this line:
> Fastness in software is like great margins in a book — makes you smile without necessarily knowing why.
The article is from 2019.
The slop is breaching temporal containment!
This is definitely not slop. I’ve followed Craig Mod’s work for a long time and he’s a prolific, talented, and very human writer.
What makes you think it is slop? The emdash?