Today is a good day to share a little something I built in nothing but CSS.
atornblad.github.io/ally-flag/

The theme for this holiday season is retro programming and child nostalgia 😁

I just had to recreate this beauty in CSS. atornblad.github.io/the-party-19...

I'm a gen-X software person. The pursuit of simplicity is not just about aesthetics or a philosophical thing, but an essential strategy for maintainable software. The benefits: improved maintainability, fewer bugs, reduced security risks, and faster development cycles.

I'm a gen-X software person. Simplicity is a necessity in software architecture. Overly complicated software designs often lead to systems that are impossible to maintain and improve, technical debt, and even security vulnerabilities.

I found an old oversized t-shirt hiding in the bottom of a pile. Silents, Lemon, Spaceballs, The Party 1993. 30 years ago today! Who else was there?

I'm a Gen-X software person. Most "micro-services" implementations are just cargo-cult implementations of what some senior software architect learned at some tech conference.

I'm a Gen-X software person. I think of scale as a feature to be delivered, and that changes every assumption you make. Going from ten thousand users to ten million, or from the terabyte scale to the petabyte scale, will force you to rethink everything from data storage to content delivery.

I'm a Gen-X software person. Microservices architecture is expensive and complex, and is usually implemented badly. Only use it when you can afford it and when you actually have a use case where the monolith approach starts to break down.

Doing Advent of Code again. Part two was unexpectedly tricky for a Day 1, I think! adventofcode.com/2023/day/1

I'm a Gen-X software person. I value simplicity over cargo-cult "best practices" implementations.

I'm a Gen-X software person. I sometimes still write ++i instead of i++ in loops to save a couple of clock cycles. Old habits die hard, I guess.

I'm a Gen-X software person. My first hard drive could store 20 megabytes and was the size of a hard-cover book. My phone's micro SD card can fit twelve thousand of those.