I hate almost all software (2011)

The older and more experience I get the more I find myself turning into a complexity zealot, to a really extremist extent. Every time I see something introduced at any level that isn't 100% strictly necessary to the problem being solved it triggers a kind of accumulated PTSD is almost physically painful. I know everyone thinks they like simplicity but my observation is that about 95% of software developers have a complexity fetish. Literally any opportunity they get to introduce…

The older I get, the more I agree with this rant. I used to be that guy putting cute unicode checkboxes in his test runner, telling myself I was making the world a better place because my software was nifty and clever. Now, I realize that, while that's nice to see, my time was better spent just solving the problem and then moving on to the next problem. Nobody was dying for animated tick marks and I probably ruined someone's…

Great rant, but I always thought it was pretty ironic because I'm not aware of a development environment that requires you to track more shit in your head than Node.js and JavaScript. Maintaining other people's JavaScript is easily the most frustrating and inefficient development that I ever have to trudge through due to the ceaselessly shifting landscape of Node packages and best practices (Grunt, Gulp, Webpack, Backbone, Angular, React, callbacks, promises, await, etc...) and the utter incapability of…