I’ve been personally slightly obsessed by the concept of rot, of good things not lasting, of falling empires etc. And I suppose my gut reaction to this at my scale has to been to try making things that last.

@ocornut And things that serve their users, rather than some venture capitalist who funded its creator.

This is why I've been doing so much stuff in the open hardware space, designing tooling (both hardware and software) for engineers that is designed to, plain and simple, get the job done.

That's it. No frills, no fuss, just solve the problem.

@ocornut I seem to have a disdain of large scale things, and I noticed a lot of people having the same reaction around me.

A soup handmade by grandma - Delicious.
The same soup made by an army of workers in a factory using heavy machines that churn out 50k soup cans/hour? No thanks.

Maybe because it's the loss of know-how, the artisan completely crushed by the capital? The lack of human-scale contact between maker and customer? Idk.

@ocornut You might have already seen this, but Jonathan Blow has a talk about this theme, applied to software. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko
Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow (Thekla, Inc)

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@ocornut providing Dear Imgui to all of us is actually fighting against rot imho. Thank you for that