the best, and most useful, programs and algorithms are ones that you download off a site that hasn't been updated in years, asks no money, consists of a single

the best, and most useful, programs and algorithms are ones that you download off a site that hasn't been updated in years, asks no money, consists of a single .exe, and does a single job. I've been thinking a lot about tools, recently. About how much things should be designed to be predictable, narrow in scope, and simple. Predictable in particular meaning not only determinative, but also meaning with no edge cases (so they can be simplified as a mutation rather than having to think about the why of how they work).