Posted by fschmidt on
URL: https://mikraite.arkian.net/Modern-Software-Layers-of-Junk-tp747p749.html

Johannes wrote

Why do you program anyway? Liberal arts are actually interesting and not just depressing.

This is a very good question.  I spent much of this last shabbat thinking about learning Hebrew, which is my version of liberal arts, versus programming.  I much prefer Hebrew since it takes me away from the modern world as opposed to programming where I am forced to confront the modern world.  Hebrew is a pleasure while programming is now a pain.

But for me to study Hebrew is selfish and basically hedonistic.  It doesn't produce any of the results that I want.  Above all, I want Mikraite to work.  And I do get satisfaction from saying "fuck you" to modern culture.

The DNS issue that I discussed is related to my development of LuanHost which is a cloud platform for Luan.  See:

http://luan.luanhost.com/

These tools should be very useful for Mikraite.  They help us to develop web businesses.  And they allow us to do web development without dealing with crappy modern software.

And there is the satisfaction of saying "fuck you" to modern culture.  Sure one can write articles attacking modern culture.  But these are largely ignored.  There is nothing that modern culture hates more than quality itself.  If you confront modern culture with true quality, they will be absolutely horrified and scream bloody murder.  This is true of good software, good architecture, good art, or good anything.  Modern culture loves what is bad and hates what is good.  So by writing good software, I am creating what is poison to modern culture.  You can get a sense of this from the reddit post I made linking to this thread.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4vfqyh/modern_software_layers_of_shit/