thiagomg

Your website is amazing! I've being complaining recently to some coworkers that current software is often bloated, full of things that are only distractions and due to all the accidental complexity, full of bugs and slow. One day, at work, Gnome stopped working due to some javascript issue and KDE at home due to something similar (I guess) and as I had to get some stuff done, I just installed WindowMaker and started using it. I forgot how amazing it was and how much it just work. Some customisations I do such as changing Caps to Control and other similar things were easy - just dealing with xinput/setxkbmap, etc.

So, my impression is that, for a while, things started getting simpler by having WYSIWYG editors and multiple things running at the same time in windows, but as the processing power and memory started improving, instead of making things easier and better, we (as people) started just adding more features and other things that they just made things more complicated than they should be.

Well, with all that, I wish success for you!

PS: It would be great if you had RSS support on your website.

My plan to have it with batteries included is to reduce the chance of it happening. Most of the times my bash scripts fail are due to:

1. bash heavily rely on OS tooling for almost everything, which is not bad per se, but adds more variation. Lua is a more complete programming language and the idea is that except for invoking external binaries to do things like copying files, talking to AWS, etc, you have everything you need in this lua runtime on steroids. 2. Instead of using the system-installed bash, you can copy Lush binaries instead of relying on the system installed one

Currently, the only dependencies of lush are libssl.so, libcrypto.so and libgcc_s.so. At some point, I plan also to get all static, so there will be no dependencies, no even libgcc

I know almost nothing about design, but it look minimalist to me

Interesting. I always thought my website was just ugly, but now I am calling it minimalist.

http://thiagocafe.com/

I’d say that it’s not necessarily plain text files, but some text based formats, preferably open. Easy to parse, read and improve.

I follow something similar here, but with a difference that I don’t do anything in closed or binary formats, except for images and such binary only things, that I use only open formats. It’s being working fine - I also have everything in a source control (moved to git, currently).

As someone suggested here, there’s no better way to see changes over time when you need to see a previous version.