You Want Technology With Warts
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- entropicthoughts.com
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You Want Technology With Warts was first seen on Lobsters · Hottest on Oct 30, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 1 check on 1 different day. Its best position was #21 of 25, reached on Oct 30, 10:19 UTC. It dropped off the list after Oct 30, 10:19 UTC.
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> we know how to build bridges that last hundreds of years: stone, concrete, and steel can all do this with the right engineering. Well. We know how to build things that will leave *visible remnants* for hundreds of years. But if you want them to *remain fit for purpose* you're going to be doing maintenance on a…
> I’d be tempted to jam Perl into the backend instead of Node.js if I wanted truly low maintenance. I have a feeling a Perl script is more likely to run unmodified 20 years from now than some Node.js thing. But maybe I’m wrong on this. Considering I still have Perl scripts from 1995 running unmodified, it does feel…
Hey, this is a nice writeup of my talk. I'm glad the author did not get hung up on the specifics—if you want to write in Perl, go for it! The point is to "reframe" (I liked the author's use of this word) what we value in our coding environments, and how to build strong foundations for applications based on those…
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