I complained about complexity bloat in a 2015 talk on the website obesity crisis, but that was nothing compared to what people are having to endure today. https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm …pic.twitter.com/py5kAqH9TO
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I complained about complexity bloat in a 2015 talk on the website obesity crisis, but that was nothing compared to what people are having to endure today. https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm …pic.twitter.com/py5kAqH9TO
The problem with complexity bloat is not just aesthetic—it prevents cool stuff from being made, creates a pointless barrier to entry for newcomers, and teaches those newcomers who do make it past ineradicably bad programming habits.
This stuff infects everything. I upgraded a server OS yesterday and my ethernet port renamed itself from "eth0" to "enp1s0f0", just in case I happen to add three datacenters to the backplane.
Which, to be fair, will happen if my bid for Pinterest is accepted.
Since a lot of the unnecessary complexity is introduced by fearsomely smart people at Google and Amazon, there's a stigma against calling it out. Maybe I'm just too dim to understand a 'services mesh'. But we saw this movie before, with SOAP and the "Semantic Web" and RDF and...
Please. I make my own CPU cores with hand tools inherited from my grandfather.
Meanwhile, the real world has payment services like Stripe, designed for simple integrations -- in part by ensuring the app's own servers don't have to contact the payment system directly, let alone load-balance for it. Only for the huge or weird does anything else make sense.
reads like a job application to me.....
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