Post B6zpTgHDKfAWM2kTyK by eldersea@expressional.social
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 (DIR) Post #B6w1n9GKD5mIZVXgx6 by eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2026-06-02T16:59:08Z
       
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       i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
       
 (DIR) Post #B6wrD4neWGCbvIFgEi by badtux@mastodon.social
       2026-06-02T18:07:58Z
       
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       @eniko But then the boss would have fewer people to manage, and be unable to justify his job. Most software changes are about employment for engineers, not necessity. Grr.As a software engineer I want computer languages and frameworks that stay stable for decades rather than have a new release every year that obsoletes old programs and requires a rewrite. But I don't get to have that :(. #software #softwaredevelopment
       
 (DIR) Post #B6wrD5gFFHs4ebnHKS by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
       2026-06-03T06:55:03Z
       
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       @badtuxI think there's enough work refactoring, cleaning up code, fixing old bugs, improving the testsuite, etc. that a same-sized team could do it for years without adding new features.@eniko
       
 (DIR) Post #B6xNW4EQ3NAQCCs4em by TimWardCam@c.im
       2026-06-02T18:33:36Z
       
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       @eniko Product: What's this ticket for, this one you're working on, it doesn't seen to be delivering any new feature? Why are we doing it?Devs: It lets us delete a couple of thousand lines of no-longer-used code. Which will then no longer need to be maintained, tested, documented, ect ect.Product: Great! That's what we like to hear!
       
 (DIR) Post #B6zpTgHDKfAWM2kTyK by eldersea@expressional.social
       2026-06-03T19:36:18Z
       
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       @maia @eniko @pouncy_panda Ooh this inspired me to meme it in this format: