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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/mattsheffield/statuses/112866035346736639">Matthew Sheffield (mattsheffield@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Jul-2024 05:40:56 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield" title="mattsheffield@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/75543-48-20240318200400.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Matthew Sheffield" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Matthew Sheffield</a></section><article><p>This is a great essay on how most of software development is a waste of time.</p><p>Most things don't need to scale to millions of users. HTML and Javascript alone are much faster and better to maintain than the zillion frameworks that have been pushed out.</p><p>Development got overcomplicated with almost no benefit whatsoever <a href="https://tailscale.com/blog/new-internet" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://tailscale.com/blog/new-internet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/webdev" rel="tag">#webdev</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cloud" rel="tag">#cloud</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" rel="tag">#linux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freebsd" rel="tag">#freebsd</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3441836#notice-6766630">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-07-29T05:40:56+09:00" title="Monday, 29-Jul-2024 05:40:56 JST">about 4 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/112866035346736639" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/112866035346736639">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: tailscale.com</div><h5><a href="https://tailscale.com/blog/new-internet">The New Internet</a></h5><div></div></header><div>We don’t talk a lot in public about the big vision for Tailscale, why we’re really here. Usually I prefer to focus on what exists right now, and what we’re going to do in the next few months. But let’s look at the biggest of big pictures for a change.</div><footer></footer></article></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2969202">The truth is, most things don’t scale, and never need to. We made Tailscale for those things, so you can spend your time scaling the things that really need it. The long tail of jobs that are 90% of what every developer spends their time on. Even developers at companies that make stuff that scales to billions of users, spend most of their time on stuff that doesn’t, like dashboards and meme generators.As an industry, we’ve spent all our time making the hard things possible, and none of our time making the easy things easy.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/866/034/180/532/758/original/dfb5596a4972058b.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/866/034/180/532/758/original/dfb5596a4972058b.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Matthew Sheffield (mattsheffield@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Jul-2024 05:40:56 JST Matthew Sheffield
This is a great essay on how most of software development is a waste of time.
Most things don't need to scale to millions of users. HTML and Javascript alone are much faster and better to maintain than the zillion frameworks that have been pushed out.
Development got overcomplicated with almost no benefit whatsoever https://tailscale.com/blog/new-internet #webdev #cloud #linux #freebsd
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  We don’t talk a lot in public about the big vision for Tailscale, why we’re really here. Usually I prefer to focus on what exists right now, and what we’re going to do in the next few months. But let’s look at the biggest of big pictures for a change.
2. The truth is, most things don’t scale, and never need to. We made Tailscale for those things, so you can spend your time scaling the things that really need it. The long tail of jobs that are 90% of what every developer spends their time on. Even developers at companies that make stuff that scales to billions of users, spend most of their time on stuff that doesn’t, like dashboards and meme generators. As an industry, we’ve spent all our time making the hard things possible, and none of our time making the easy things easy.
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