Hey, didn't you write kjbuckets and Gadfly? Or was that Aaron Watters? I was thinking about that the other day: that was one of the coolest pieces of software

Hey, didn't you write kjbuckets and Gadfly? Or was that Aaron Watters? I was thinking about that the other day: that was one of the coolest pieces of software for Python 2 (though I think it predated Python 2): an embedded SQL database without needing SQLite's C API. I suppose it's succumbed to "software rot" now. I think "boring software" is a useful term. Exciting things are unpredictable. Predictable things aren't exciting. They're boring. Stock car racing is interesting because it's unpredictable, and, as I understand it, it's okay for a race car to behave unpredictably, as long as it isn't the welds in the roll bars that are behaving unpredictably. But if your excitement is coming from some other source—a beautiful person has invited you to go on a ski trip with them, or your wife needs to get to the hospital within the next half hour—it's better to use a boring car that you know won't overheat halfway there. Similarly, if a piece of software is a means to some other end, and that end is what's exciting you, it's better to use boring software to reach that end instead of exciting software.