It’s unnecessary and complicated at almost every layer. At best I can
congratulate someone for quickly and simply solving a problem on top of the shit
that they are given. The only software that I like is one that I can easily
understand and solves my problems. The amount of complexity I’m willing to
tolerate is proportional to the size of the problem being solved.

In the past year I think I have finally come to understand the ideals of Unix:
file descriptors and processes orchestrated with C. It’s a beautiful idea. This
is not however what we interact with. The complexity was not contained. Instead
I deal with DBus and /usr/lib an