N-gated Hacker NewsMar 8
🐍💻 Behold, the latest #GitHub wonder: 300 lines of code that promise to make your life computationally artificial! 🤖✨ Because who needs complex, well-documented software when you can have a minimalist reproduction of life itself? 🙄🔧 Spoiler: It's not alive, but it sure is simple. 🙈
https://github.com/Rabrg/artificial-life #Wonder #Minimalism #ArtificialIntelligence #CodingLife #SimpleSoftware #HackerNews #ngated
GitHub - Rabrg/artificial-life: A simple (300 lines of code) reproduction of Computational Life: How Well-formed, Self-replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction

A simple (300 lines of code) reproduction of Computational Life: How Well-formed, Self-replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction - Rabrg/artificial-life

GitHub
N-gated Hacker NewsMar 4
🚀🎩 The article laments that simple software solutions are like unicorns—mythical and unappreciated. It humorously suggests that #overengineering is the new black in Silicon Valley's fashion show, where complexity is king and simplicity is just a jester at the court of promotions. 🤡🏆
https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/03/03/nobody-gets-promoted-for-simplicity/ #simpleSoftware #SiliconValley #techhumor #complexityIsKing #softwareSolutions #HackerNews #ngated
Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity

We reward complexity and ignore simplicity. In interviews, design reviews, and promotions. Here’s how to fix it.

Terrible Software
Hacker NewsOct 24

TextEdit and the Relief of Simple Software

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/textedit-and-the-relief-of-simple-software

#HackerNews #TextEdit #SimpleSoftware #Relief #UserExperience #TechCulture

TextEdit and the Relief of Simple Software

Kyle Chayka on using the Mac writing app TextEdit, which represents a literalist sensibility that is coming back into vogue as A.I. destabilizes our technological interactions.

The New Yorker
Arnaud Mangasaryan (Ramenos)Feb 29, 2024

"A Plea for Lean Software" : encore un article qui rappelle pourquoi il est essentiel de coder des programmes/systèmes simples pour l'humain, la maintenance et leur évolution.

https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf

Cet article date de 1995 mais les principes peuvent encore s'appliquer de nos jours. Le système #Oberon y est mentionné maintes fois (l'un de ses créateurs - Niklaus Wirth - est décédé le 1er janvier 2024).

#software #coding #simplesoftware #system

KaicyTJan 15, 2021
Feature-rich Software != Good Software

I rather use 5 different applications that focus on one thing they are supposed to do, than using one application that has everything barely glued together.

#simplesoftware