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| author | Franklin Schmidt <fschmidt@gmail.com> |
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| date | Sat, 24 Aug 2024 21:45:21 -0600 |
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| 26 <p>I have this kind of experience all the time. I need something. I look online. Everything I find is horribly over-complicated. And so I just write it myself. Don't reinvent the wheel you say? When every wheel I can find is some complicated shape and not a simple circle, then I do reinvent the wheel.</p> | 26 <p>I have this kind of experience all the time. I need something. I look online. Everything I find is horribly over-complicated. And so I just write it myself. Don't reinvent the wheel you say? When every wheel I can find is some complicated shape and not a simple circle, then I do reinvent the wheel.</p> |
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| 28 <p>This <a href="https://youtu.be/PCRx78Zhj7s">funny video</a> exemplifies modern design. Over-engineered, over-complicated, inflexible, and cumbersome. All modern software is like this. Of course it wasn't always like this. Most programming in the last century was good. Serious deterioration started around 2000 and by 2010 all software developed by modern culture was horrible. This reflects the general decline of modern culture.</p> | 28 <p>This <a href="https://youtu.be/PCRx78Zhj7s">funny video</a> exemplifies modern design. Over-engineered, over-complicated, inflexible, and cumbersome. All modern software is like this. Of course it wasn't always like this. Most programming in the last century was good. Serious deterioration started around 2000 and by 2010 all software developed by modern culture was horrible. This reflects the general decline of modern culture.</p> |
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| 30 <p>I have written numerous posts over the years complaining about modern software. Here is <a href="http://www.mikraite.org/Modern-Software-Layers-of-Junk-tp747.html">one</a> from 2016 complaining about DNS caching. It goes into detail about the particular issue I was dealing with at the time, but I am only posting a link because the details aren't important. The important point is that all modern software written by modern programmers is like this, all horrible unusable crap. And this is why reasonable people need reactionary software.</p> | 30 <p>I have written numerous posts over the years complaining about modern software. Here is <a href="http://mikraite.arkian.net/Modern-Software-Layers-of-Junk-tp747.html">one</a> from 2016 complaining about DNS caching. It goes into detail about the particular issue I was dealing with at the time, but I am only posting a link because the details aren't important. The important point is that all modern software written by modern programmers is like this, all horrible unusable crap. And this is why reasonable people need reactionary software.</p> |
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| 32 <p>This website is about software, but the principle applies to everything. Here is <a href="https://youtu.be/p5qVxAoKwbE">a video about brick walls</a>. Same basic story. So where will this decay of software and everything else lead?</p> | 32 <p>This website is about software, but the principle applies to everything. Here is <a href="https://youtu.be/p5qVxAoKwbE">a video about brick walls</a>. Same basic story. So where will this decay of software and everything else lead?</p> |
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| 34 <h2>The Historical Example of Cosmology</h2> | 34 <h2>The Historical Example of Cosmology</h2> |
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| 48 <p>Given this situation, what should a good reactionary programmer do? In Matthew 7:6, Jesus said "Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces." Good software is pearls and modern programmers are swine. So do not repeat my mistake of showing good software to modern programmers.</p> | 48 <p>Given this situation, what should a good reactionary programmer do? In Matthew 7:6, Jesus said "Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces." Good software is pearls and modern programmers are swine. So do not repeat my mistake of showing good software to modern programmers.</p> |
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| 50 <h2>What is good?</h2> | 50 <h2>What is good?</h2> |
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| 52 <p>The short answer is that everything that modern culture hates is good, and everything that modern culture loves is bad. But we need more details than that. You can find good values in scripture or in good traditional culture. These values should be applied to programming and to everything else in life. I wrote <a href="http://www.mikraite.org/The-Old-Testament-on-Programming-tp1923.html">an Old Testament guide to programming</a>. I also discussed <a href="http://www.mikraite.org/Core-Programming-Principles-tp1237.html">applying traditional Japanese culture to programming</a>. These are just two examples. Any other scripture like the Quran or any traditional culture should work fine to give you good values, in contrast to the horrible values of modern culture, and these good values can guide you to writing good reactionary software.</p> | 52 <p>The short answer is that everything that modern culture hates is good, and everything that modern culture loves is bad. But we need more details than that. You can find good values in scripture or in good traditional culture. These values should be applied to programming and to everything else in life. I wrote <a href="http://mikraite.arkian.net/The-Old-Testament-on-Programming-tp1923.html">an Old Testament guide to programming</a>. I also discussed <a href="http://mikraite.arkian.net/Core-Programming-Principles-tp1237.html">applying traditional Japanese culture to programming</a>. These are just two examples. Any other scripture like the Quran or any traditional culture should work fine to give you good values, in contrast to the horrible values of modern culture, and these good values can guide you to writing good reactionary software.</p> |
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| 54 <h2>What about alt-tech?</h2> | 54 <h2>What about alt-tech?</h2> |
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| 56 <p>"Alt-tech" is a misnomer. It isn't actually alternative technology, it is alternative politics. It should be called "right-tech" because it is the same technology, just used to serve the Right. And this is the problem.</p> | 56 <p>"Alt-tech" is a misnomer. It isn't actually alternative technology, it is alternative politics. It should be called "right-tech" because it is the same technology, just used to serve the Right. And this is the problem.</p> |
| 57 | 57 |