Building with Intent
On the value of small, focused tools built for specific problems.
There’s a difference between software that exists and software that solves.
The first category is everywhere: bloated, feature-creeped, trying to be everything to everyone. It accumulates options and switches and configuration screens until using it requires reading documentation.
The second is rarer. Small. Focused. It does one thing well. You understand it immediately because there is nothing to misunderstand.
I try to build the second kind.