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NANTUCKET LIT PHLOG

EXCELLENT BLOG POST ON CREEPING MISSIONS

NJB // 2023-01-11 // Broomfield, CO

© 2023 Nantucket E-Books LLC

CC-BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

Brad Taunt's a guy I met on Mastodon. I really like his work on web design
minimailism: his version of the CSS checkbox hack (https://bt.ht/notice/), a
simpler CraigsList gallery (https://bt.ht/gallery/), or fitting a website in
just one kilobyte (https://bt.ht/1kb/). Taunt is one of a few people who
motivated me to build the static-site generator I use for this site's blog. 

His latest blog post (2023-01-09) (https://bt.ht/one-thing/) is one I heartily
agree with. He describes having to replace his Keurig coffee-maker twice in
five months. A case of planned obsolescence? No, says Taunt, the problem was
the Keurig was designed to do too much. His Keurig combines the pod method with
a percolator, and what was intended to provide more choice and less footprint
on the kitchen counter instead offers more points of failure. 

I very much agree. Each new feature added to software means more complexity,
more bugs, more work to maintain. When I'm working on Nantucket E-Books, I try
to put as much work into taking unnecessary features out, as putting new
features in. A simpler e-book, and simpler software to build the e-books, means
it can be maintained for less time and money, and will break less often for the
reader. I don't see the push for a simple e-book as conflicting with my goal to
make the best e-books on the planet: the best e-book should be simple, while
providing superlative reading experience. 

I would encourage anyone starting out in software development to build an
application that does one thing, but does it very well. You'll make things a
whole lot easier, not just for yourself, but your customers as well. 


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