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The danger of over engineering, what complexity in hardware teaches us about software

Making login forms fiddly

The first world problem that shouldn’t be a problem. The tools are there to make everyone’s lives just that little bit easier

Code is just another spec, the most detailed, the spec that captures all of the required functionality

It is impossible to define when grains of sand turn into a pile, very much like code"

The Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw famously once said, “The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

Despite the complexity of some mechanical devices you could point to every part of it and observe how it worked, suddenly software comes along and nothing physical exists

We are trying to agree on an abstract concept and turn it into a non-physical product running on a computer that fulfills a need, is adopted by users, and delivers business value. The process is there to assist in getting us from idea to working product as efficiently as possible, nothing more…

Simple command-line backup from any device with just curl or equivalent

We are heading for a second dark ages