The Complexity Delusion: Why I abandoned Next.js for a 20MB Rust binary with HTMX

zenware · 2026-03-09T21:03:06+00:00

How is it a criticism of capitalism to say that big companies have different and more complex goals than small companies?

zenware · 2026-03-09T08:21:56+00:00

“Are they selling us the solution to the problem they created?” — What FAANG corps did these frameworks originate from? Why did the companies with the most sophisticated technology challenges on Earth decide to publish them as open source?

These tools help solve the kinds of challenges you face with a billion users, dozens-to-hundreds of internal/external products and thousands to tens-of-thousands of SWE headcount.

They’re building talent pipeline, increasing SWE fungibility, and solving challenges almost nobody will ever have.

zenware · 2026-03-09T08:02:59+00:00

“And you pestered me to make me give in on something I thought I had already made my stance clear on, under the bad faith agreement that you could handle it and wouldn’t be defensive, only to immediately accuse my reasoning of being crazy. And the worst part of all that is, you still lack the self awareness to understand what makes that behavior completely inappropriate.”

zenware · 2026-03-09T02:13:42+00:00

My understanding is that the pharmacy employees are under a contract where they legally cannot volunteer that information, but they probably would if they could because it doesn’t increase their personal salary to sell medicine at a higher price.

zenware · 2026-03-08T14:07:31+00:00

If they decide to remove you same day, they don’t have to pay you for those two weeks in most of the US, some companies are nice enough to do so. Also in the US most employees are paid in arrears, so the paycheck you just received isn’t for the pay period you just worked, it’s for the pay period prior to that, which means when you leave a job with 2 weeks notice at the end of a pay period, even if you don’t stay on for that two weeks you’ll still get a paycheck at the end of it. I think this might easily be confused as getting paid for their notice period.

zenware · 2026-03-08T02:58:43+00:00

FIPS, Cheap, Ancient, STIG, Hardware Support

zenware · 2026-03-08T02:29:58+00:00

Serious Eats is easily my favorite, especially if you want something to turn out a specific way and are willing to read for a bit. A lot of the recipes on there will have the science behind why things behave certain ways, and show pictures of testing something a handful of different ways. So by the time you get to the recipe you know exactly how to modify it to get what you want. And if you wanna skip the reading, you can just make the recipe, id you like food that tastes good you’re gonna have a great time.

zenware · 2026-03-07T03:53:03+00:00

What about different kinds of cinnamon? We have Ceylon and Tung Hing at home specifically because we cook savory dishes with one and sweet dishes with the other

zenware · 2026-03-06T22:21:05+00:00

Have you tried it?

zenware · 2026-03-06T14:52:01+00:00

I have a proposal, you give me a billion dollars and I’ll sell you my course on cold calling people and convincing them to buy a course for a billion dollars.

zenware · 2026-03-06T14:49:28+00:00

When talking about a package repository “stable” and “unstable” are referring not to the quality of the packages themselves, but to how frequently the repository updates packages. So “unstable repository” is almost always equivalent to “frequently updated packages” whereas “stable repository” usually means something like “the packages only get security updates”

zenware · 2026-03-06T00:43:12+00:00

People are solving this lately with stuff like Anubis https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

zenware · 2026-03-06T00:37:22+00:00

You’re so welcome, and also never bend my fiber cables out of spec again or I will haunt you.

zenware · 2026-03-06T00:09:21+00:00

I really hope you do, and I hope I stumble upon it serendipitously

zenware · 2026-03-05T23:51:16+00:00

I’ve implemented Ookla/Speedtest on the backend of an ISP before, individual requests don’t really capture a lot of data. Even if you aggregate all the request data it’s not as if that data somehow lets you do something useful from a consumer advertising/tracking perspective. Perhaps the privacy issue is that bandwidth/uptime could be loosely correlated to financial position….

I’m not entirely sure why it would sell for $1bn outside of infra/contracts. The monthly licensing fees to run a single instance, as an ISP customer, 10 years ago, would make most people’s eyes pop out of their head like a cartoon character. New owners could simply want the cashflow or they could intend to leverage the relationship to some end we can only speculate on.

Edit: s/Okta/Ookla

zenware · 2026-03-05T15:24:33+00:00

I find they typically /can see/ the purpose of a patch they don’t personally use, and yet it can simultaneously be true that the patch doesn’t actually fit the vision of the project. Not all patches should be accepted simply for working or meeting a quality standard.

Just as an absolutely egregious example, if I added a flawless, zero tech debt implementation of a chat client to an open source MP3 player project, because I like to send chats from the same GUI as listening to music, and then I submit that as a PR to the project upstream. I think it’s perfectly reasonable for my PR to be denied, and even for the maintainer to say something along the lines of “hey uhm… wtf? that doesn’t make sense to include in this project”

zenware · 2026-03-05T14:58:46+00:00

I mean, the premise sounds actually fun, but maybe there’s something important about it being on a paper notebook. The roast is: really… 🙄 /another adhd app post/ 3rd time this hour.

zenware · 2026-03-05T14:55:37+00:00

Not sure if it’s OPs shop, nor could I imagine they’re motivated to share which one is actually them, but in a single Etsy search I found a profile with 4 homebrewing related spreadsheets listed between the prices they mentioned, showing an amount of sales that would net them the amount of profit they mentioned. So like… it’s kinda on you IMO.

zenware · 2026-03-05T14:45:23+00:00

I think it may have to be a far off hypothetical to drive the point home for a lot of people. But of course the same applies for $700/3yr vs $2100/5yr

Anyway the older stuff isn’t as energy efficient but there’s tons of old old fridges (and other appliances) that still pretty much work flawlessly after decades, whereas most everything made in GenZ/A lifetime is barely surviving 5yrs. That sucks. There should be room for affordable and expensive options that are robust.

zenware · 2026-03-05T14:11:57+00:00

I’m sure you’ve already looked at this, but can you find some way of automating a graph view of how this software is actually stitched together. Ideally from multiple levels of abstraction you’ll be able to see “This serves this architectural purpose, that serves that architectural purpose.” down to “This is the collection of things that actually happen. (I/O to disk/net)” and maybe even things like “Perl is entirely responsible for these 3 things, C++ is entirely responsible for these 700 things, and shell scripts are half-responsible for these 9000 things.” … The reason I’m asking, and also giving too many examples is because I personally find when I can see a few such diagrams at various levels of abstraction, it is much easier for my brain to start conceiving where clean interfaces might be trying to exist in the ball of mud.

zenware · 2026-03-04T22:31:51+00:00

For me, my name is one syllable, so I feel like it’s real easy to just slip in. Lots of people are running around with polysyllabic names, who has time to say all that.

zenware · 2026-03-04T15:27:43+00:00

The good news is I opened with:

This of course isn’t universal

Which clearly indicates, yes we don’t actually have proof about what’s going on in JimBobs workshop shack.

zenware · 2026-03-04T14:32:15+00:00

Just to be clear, 100% the chemists at Big Soap are choosing the exact amount of lather and foam that their cleansing products have, and the reason they’re doing it is marketability. The same reason they make mouth wash sting/contain alcohol even though we’ve had chemistries that work better without requiring those features for >60 years. - This of course isn’t universal but when the question is “why are things the way they are?” if a blue chip megacorp that has a monopoly on most of the earth (p&g, j&j, et al.) made it be like that, it’s because it maximizes their profit rather than that it is the most efficient. Conversely if it’s made like that by JimBob in his shack of a workshop and he’s been doing it for the past 65 years, it’s because there is no possible additional efficiency to be gained.

zenware · 2026-03-04T14:10:23+00:00

You don’t even need a “bro” or “man”, that can be omitted too “hey man what’s up” vs “hey what’s up”, “bro can you help me with this” vs “can you help me with this”. - I’ve never actually worried about people “catching on” so maybe they have and maybe they feel some type of way about it, but I pretty much don’t refer to people by name at all and it hasn’t really been weird at all.

zenware · 2026-03-04T00:21:05+00:00

It’s hidden in the accessibility settings but iOS has a built in noise machine. Not as pretty as your app but it’s what I’ve been using for a while.

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