Post #4261880
2026-07-30 00:32 UTC
@dalias@hachyderm.io Long ago, I saw the pattern. There's Moore's Law, but then there's "Software Developer Law", which is :
"Software expands to consume twice the available resources, no matter how vast"
And developers always have the latest, fastest platforms.
For a while, it was encouraged because it sold new HW every year or two.
Now we can make a quantum leap forward by deleting the past 15 years of cruft from the stack.
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@cerement@social.targaryen.house 2026-07-30 01:59
@jab01701mid@mastodon.social @dalias@hachyderm.io https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
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@gwozniak@discuss.systems 2026-07-30 02:49
@jab01701mid@mastodon.social @dalias@hachyderm.io I don't work in web stuff at all, but I rail against this mentality all the time. Yes, I have a fast machine. No, I don't think it's a baseline. I swear it's a mentality thing, where there are those like me who want to make products that allow people to enhance their lives, even if it's not groundbreaking. Then there are other who just want to make products in the belief there is great virtue in that product simply existing. The latter never care about performance or resource usage.