“We accepted this gradual bloat, but that’s not progress.” (opens in new tab)

I like the Fits on a Floppy manifesto by Matt Sephton: Software should be as small as it can be. Not as a gimmick, but as a discipline. The floppy disk is the measuring stick: 1.44 MB. If the software that ran entire businesses could fit in that space, then a modern, focused, single-purpose tool certainly can. In my own work, I have...