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grindstone
Saw this story a couple days ago, went to the kid’s site and poked around and can’t help but be humbled by her intellect (couple code samples here and there in journal) and be reminded of the workload & struggles of youth. Pretty feel-good story, but nails a point about software completeness. Revisiting again today to skim the Reg comments, I thought immediately of this place. FYI.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/enlightenment_e16_bug_patched/
The more of those comments I read, the more I wanted to scream yes yes yes. So it’s not just me/us.
christophe
Just a taste…
Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager
Kamila Szewczyk prefers old software, as back then people understood something could actually be finished
Brandon Vigliarolo
Wed 15 Apr 2026 // 17:09 UTCNo one can tell software developer Kamila Szewczyk that newer is better: She just fixed a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16, the old-school Linux window manager she favors partly because, she tells us, it is actually finished software.
If bugs like these exist in 20-year-old code, imagine what lurks in modern slop
It was a fun read. 🙂
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anti-apXos
Think of all the young programmers at Google, Apple, Red Hat, et al. that would suddenly be out of a job and probably living on the streets if software wasn’t constantly being developed anymore.
I do sometimes think that’s what’s behind this shift. There’s constantly more and more people going into “software engineering” as a career and how else are they all going to be put to work?
I see exactly the same thing in computer/information security, too. There’s clearly now more people working in that field than there needs to be to address real-world exploits, so most of them end up developing prophylactic security concepts that just make my computer harder to use in order to protect me from the imaginary threats these security specialists dream up.
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Brian Masinick
Think of all the young programmers at Google, Apple, Red Hat, et al. that would suddenly be out of a job and probably living on the streets if software wasn’t constantly being developed anymore.
I do sometimes think that’s what’s behind this shift. There’s constantly more and more people going into “software engineering” as a career and how else are they all going to be put to work?
I see exactly the same thing in computer/information security, too. There’s clearly now more people working in that field than there needs to be to address real-world exploits, so most of them end up developing prophylactic security concepts that just make my computer harder to use in order to protect me from the imaginary threats these security specialists dream up.
You have a good point. Some of the best software I’ve ever seen was developed by just a few people at most.
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