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Re: Marie Kondo your software stack with open source

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Post by rwwmike » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 3:40 PM UTC

mark_l_watson wrote: post #10

That was a fun read. BTW, I bought both Kondo’s original tidying book and her tidying for work book. I have been looking at ways to simplify my software stacks while transitioning to “retirement.” For me this is often just pushing complexity to web infrastructure managed by corporations (but always with an easy migration path). Examples: Lisp dev: I have been using Common Lisp for 40 years. I am eyeing more minimal l…

Thanks, I really enjoyed writing it!

And yeah, as I talked to everyone for the article, it really seemed that minimalism was relative to where you were, and could often show up these days in using managed services. Such is the power of the cloud, right?

I didn't go there, but I think lots of things like serverless and edge workers and stuff like that could fit into this discussion as well.

Re: Marie Kondo your software stack with open source

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Post by mark_l_watson » Sat, Nov 19, 2022, 2:42 PM UTC

rwwmike wrote: post #11

mark_l_watson wrote: post #10

That was a fun read. BTW, I bought both Kondo’s original tidying book and her tidying for work book. I have been looking at ways to simplify my software stacks while transitioning to “retirement.” For me this is often just pushing complexity to web infrastructure managed by corporations (but always with an easy migration path). Examples: Lisp dev: I have been using Common Lisp for 40 years. I am eyeing more minimal l…

Thanks, I really enjoyed writing it! And yeah, as I talked to everyone for the article, it really seemed that minimalism was relative to where you were, and could often show up these days in using managed services. Such is the power of the cloud, right? I didn't go there, but I think lots of things like serverless and edge workers and stuff like that could fit into this discussion as well.

I would like to make a suggestion: put your Mastodon or Twitter handle in your HN profile. I was going to follow you on social media, which is how I get links to reading material.

Re: Marie Kondo your software stack with open source

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Post by rwwmike » Thu, Dec 01, 2022, 1:37 PM UTC

mark_l_watson wrote: post #12

rwwmike wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, I really enjoyed writing it! And yeah, as I talked to everyone for the article, it really seemed that minimalism was relative to where you were, and could often show up these days in using managed services. Such is the power of the cloud, right? I didn't go there, but I think lots of things like serverless and edge workers and stuff like that could fit into this discussion as well.

I would like to make a suggestion: put your Mastodon or Twitter handle in your HN profile. I was going to follow you on social media, which is how I get links to reading material.

Ahh, good call. They're both on there now.