Simplicity (II)

September 10th, 2019

When you ever had to fix just a few lines of CSS and it took two hours to get an ancient version of Gulp up and running, you know what I’m talking about.

I feel seen.

When everything works, it feels like magic. When something breaks, it’s hell.

I concur with Bastian’s advice:

I have a simple rule of thumb when it comes to programming:

less code === less potential issues

And this observation rings very true:

This dependency hell is also the reason why old projects are almost like sealed capsules. You can hardly let a project lie around for more than a year, because afterwards it’s probably broken.

Looking forward to Apple announcing that now Jony has left that the new iPhone will have a removable battery and an SD card slot.

Looking forward to Apple announcing that now Jony has left that the new iPhone will have a removable battery and an SD card slot.

2012: You can make a living making art on the internet!
2013: Quit your job to make things on the internet! (p.s., depression)
2014: It's rough/lonely here; we need support nets.
2015: Have you thought about death? What's your legacy?
2016: Oof, MONEY. Maybe a day job is ok?

Exactly five years ago, I made this Git commit to discontinue multi-year certificates at @SSLMate. Today the CA/Browser Forum finished voting on a ballot to limit all publicly-trusted certificates to 1 year. (1/7)

Single-handedly managed the successful upgrade and deployment of new environmental illumination system with zero cost overruns and zero safety incidents.