I think there's beauty in the best you can do with a very simple implementation. Even if you can improve "prettiness" with heroic technical efforts, I think th

I think there's beauty in the best you can do with a very simple implementation. Even if you can improve "prettiness" with heroic technical efforts, I think the end result would be uglier. There's something special about simple rules coming together to address just the most important needs. In the tech world, we tend to put more finesse into things... because we can. But as a result, most software is over-finessed and therefore not finessed at all. A great example is how tortured we let our CSS rules get, rather than allowing a design to relax a little into the constraints of the layout engine. A hand-set newspaper isn't beautiful because it overcame every constraint, it's beautiful because it accepted its constraints, and made hard tradeoffs in service of a goal.