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Fits on a Floppy: A Manifesto for Small Software
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Software should be as small as it can be. Not as a gimmick, but as a discipline. The floppy disk is the measuring stick: 1.44 MB. If the software that ran entire businesses could fit in that space, then a modern, focused, single-purpose tool certainly can.
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I created a simple Obsidian plugin for some text manipulation I do.
Simple commands that run locally in your vault, providing ~80 text manipulation commands accessible from the Command Palette.
Case / Format, Line sorting, filtering, encoding, etc.
As long as Discover still means something... (more so because it's conveniently located on mobile, and yes, there are plenty of non-techies who stick with that and that's it) ... but now they're worried about bringing it to the desktop. Too late?
I remember when everyone even started making those bundles that looked special there, I forget the name.
https://searchengineland.com/google-to-expand-discover-googles-desktop-homepage-454155
https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2025/03/free-webcast-tomorrow-fundamentals-of-query-tuning/
March 18: Fundamentals of Query Tuning
April 1: Fundamentals of TempDB
April 8: Fundamentals of Columnstore
May 6: Mastering Index Tuning
May 13: Mastering Query Tuning
May 20: Mastering Parameter Sniffing
May 27: Mastering Server Tuning
It’s time for SQL Server Spring Training! I’m teaching 60-90 minutes of my most popular classes for free over the next few months. Tomorrow I’m doing Fundamentals of Query Tuning. It’s for folks who are comfortable writing queries to get the data they want, but wildly uncomfortable reading query plans and trying to explain why queries...
vim is one of those programs I love but would never suggest that anyone use it
but every so often I wonder -- who might want to switch to using vim in 2025? my sense is that vim (and especially neovim) actually are still acquiring lots of new users but I don't have a good sense for what "kind" of person is choosing to start using them today
(as usual not looking for reasons people started using vim 20 or 30 years ago)
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I've seen various calls for restrictions on the use of AI and algorithmic decision making in general. I think we would be better off ensuring software decisions are explainable
https://martinfowler.com/articles/2024-restrict-algorithm.html
Liam Proven
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