suckless.md

!meta title="The suckless agenda"

Laws of Computer Programming:
        1. Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
        2. Any given program costs more and takes longer.
        3. If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
        4. If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
        5. Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.
        6. The value of a program is proportional the weight of its output.
        7. Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of
                the programmer who must maintain it.

-- fortune(6)

Subpages

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Guiding principles

Suckless: future-proof, present-friendly.

• The Critical Engineering Manifesto.
• Software rot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
• The Mutt E-Mail Client: "All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less".
• The Future Programming Manifesto.
• Unix philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
• KISS principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
• suckless.org software that sucks less.
• principles - IndieWebCamp.
• Reduce, reuse, recycle:
  • Reduce: favor the simplest solutions and focus attention on specific problems;
  • Reuse: work from experience and favor examples of current practice;
  • Recycle: encourage modularity and the ability to embed. reference.

Contributions to the agenda

Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to
be maintained.

-- The Tao of Programming

• Security Specs.
• Static site generation.
• Metadot to manage dotfiles along with a locally-installable applications repository.

Stuff currently being observed

• Neovim.

I should not install a software if

I can solve my problem using:

• A terminal and the related userland.
• A text editor like vim.
• A version control system like git.
• A clean data format like markdown, yaml, dot or CSV.