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🔪 The bloat of edge-case first libraries
https://43081j.com/2025/09/bloat-of-edge-case-libraries
#software #programming #api #libraries #complexity #softwaredevelopment #computing #engineering
🔪 The bloat of edge-case first libraries
https://43081j.com/2025/09/bloat-of-edge-case-libraries
#software #programming #api #libraries #complexity #softwaredevelopment #computing #engineering
｢ Everything’s optimised for developers – and hostile to everyone else.
This isn’t accidental. It’s cultural. We’ve created an industry where complexity is celebrated. Where cleverness is rewarded. Where engineering sophistication is valued more than clarity, usability, or commercial effectiveness.
It’s easier to win an argument by citing SSR compatibility issues than it is to ask, “Why are we using React for a blog?” ｣
https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/
｢ Everything’s optimised for developers – and hostile to everyone else.
This isn’t accidental. It’s cultural. We’ve created an industry where complexity is celebrated. Where cleverness is rewarded. Where engineering sophistication is valued more than clarity, usability, or commercial effectiveness.
It’s easier to win an argument by citing SSR compatibility issues than it is to ask, “Why are we using React for a blog?” ｣
https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/
It takes 10 hours on a laptop accurately simulating 5 seconds of a worm wiggling: https://archive.is/0j2Jp (and we still cannot simulate more than 20-30 #quantum particles exactly). Please be humble when the universe is present! #modeling #complexity (through @loriemerson )
It takes 10 hours on a laptop accurately simulating 5 seconds of a worm wiggling: https://archive.is/0j2Jp (and we still cannot simulate more than 20-30 #quantum particles exactly). Please be humble when the universe is present! #modeling #complexity (through @loriemerson )
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