March 21, 2025 at 1:48:43 PM UTC

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my working theory is that indie developers make faster software because they feel the pain of buying their own hardware and are more prone to making it work on older hardware (just like folks using the software)

Also posted to Mastodon.

14 replies

Ariel Salminen Bluesky 2 min later

I had some thoughts about this 5 years ago seemingly arielsalminen.com/2020/a-misse... 😅
1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 30 min later
  
  you have good thoughts!
Michael Bluesky 6 min later

These skills will come in handy when it all stops
1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 29 min later
  
  it won’t stop until planet earth is stripped bare, michael
  1. Michael Bluesky 33 min later
    
    "Leatherman" from the olde English for "ray of sunshine"
    1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 36 min later
      
      look, on the bright side I can say that by that time a new elite class will have a foothold on mars and will be already stripping that planet of all resources too
AliveDevil Mastodon 24 min later

@zachleat
Not just that, also less complex.
I don’t have the capacity of deploying a full blown kubernetes just for some micro-service nonsense on my five node 4th Gen Intel Proxmox Cluster.
1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 32 min later
  
  @AliveDevil yeah! a good lesson about constraints in there
Roderick Gadellaa Mastodon 28 min later

@zachleat Also probably that an indie dev cares more about the projects they are involved in (compared to "yet another day at the office")?
1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 32 min later
  
  @rgadellaa caring is a superpower
Sean O'Brien Bluesky 2 hr later

"art from adversity" etc. etc.
Lea Rosema Mastodon 6 hr later

@zachleat True. The overengineering in enterprise dev environments is really sick.
Pierre Spring Mastodon 19 hr later

@zachleat I personally think the driving factor for bad software in companies is time pressure. At least, whenever I pushed things that I would consider some optimal, it was because a manager was pushing me to finish a feature to start the next one.
When I work on my own, I tend to almost always rewrite the entire feature once it’s working.
1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 2 days later
  
  @caillou whew, yes. explains some of the LLM fervor too