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  • Ken McLeod_the_cloud@mastodon.social
    Feb 3, 2026, 6:26 PM

    Sitting here, writing software on an emulated Mac II on a laptop that's at least a thousand times faster, I am realizing:

    - There's no need to lock in a feature set and specify all milestone sub-tasks first
    - Not required to add any AI features
    - Not required to gather detailed usage metrics
    - Not required to use (or not use) a particular language
    - If it has a bug, I can just fix the bug without having to write up a RCA and schedule meetings
    - Get to choose my own tools
    - It's fun again.

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  • paulrickardspaulrickards@mastodon.social
    Feb 3, 2026, 6:37 PM

    @_the_cloud On point! Other things I realize:

    - The old hardware and software spec isn't going to suddenly change
    - The AppleTalk protocols I'm writing for isn't going to change
    - Having other people to bounce questions and ideas off of without using AI
    - I can write the code how I want, even if it's not the best way
    - It's fun again.

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  • Miguel Arrozarroz@mastodon.social
    Feb 3, 2026, 7:37 PM

    @paulrickards @_the_cloud The best part of it all is the overall feeling of building upon something done by people who wanted to solve problems instead of pushing a solution nobody wants for problems they just made up. And charging rent for it.

    Oh, and no fighting with code signing.

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  • Ken McLeod_the_cloud@mastodon.social
    Feb 3, 2026, 8:15 PM

    @arroz @paulrickards I used to tell Perry The Cynic that he was building a Brazen Bull, and someday he too would be locked in it, unable to run software of his own making that wasn't signed by Apple. Cries of anguish would only be heard as "this is working and increases the security."

    That said, malware execution is a real problem that code signing tries to help solve, and it's a hard problem.

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