Your "Software Isn't Bloated" post reminds me of an old post from Joel Spolsky about how complexity (ie. bloat) creeps in from countless unforeseen edge cases.

Your "Software Isn't Bloated" post reminds me of an old post from Joel Spolsky about how complexity (ie. bloat) creeps in from countless unforeseen edge cases. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... "Back to that two page function. Yes, I know, it’s just a simple function to display a window, but it has grown little hairs and stuff on it and nobody knows why. Well, I’ll tell you why: those are bug fixes. One of them fixes that bug that Nancy had when she tried to install the thing on a computer that didn’t have Internet Explorer. Another one fixes that bug that occurs in low memory conditions. Another one fixes that bug that occurred when the file is on a floppy disk and the user yanks out the disk in the middle. That LoadLibrary call is ugly but it makes the code work on old versions of Windows 95."