Carl's Required Reading

Re:Carl's Required Reading by olives on Saturday August 08, 2026 @12:06AM (#49218813)

Microservices
grug wonder why big brain take hardest problem, factoring system correctly, and introduce network call too

seem very confusing to grug

^ This is the best and funniest paragraph of text that I’ve read this year

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Re:Carl's Required Reading by Cerium on Saturday August 08, 2026 @12:22AM (#49218869)

I'm a fan of the t-rex:

> given choice between complexity or one on one against t-rex, grug take t-rex: at least grug see t-rex

That section reminds me of The Litany Against Fear.

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Re:Carl's Required Reading by adityaathalye on Saturday August 08, 2026 @01:12PM (#49223702)

Hah, indeed!

  "I must not complect.
  Complexity is the mind-killer.
  Complexity is the little-death that brings obliteration.
  I will face complexity and I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
  And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
  Where the complexity has gone, there will be nothing.
  Only I will remain."

  — Litany Against Complexity

I made that up in blog post that feels aligned with Carl's world-view. The Litany appears here in the post: https://www.evalapply.org/posts/writing-practices-to-10x-eng...

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