2025.07.25
Gall's Law: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
The corollary is devastating: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work.
This is why:
- Microservices migrations often fail when done as big-bang rewrites
- New frameworks struggle against battle-tested ones
- "Clean slate" projects often become technical debt faster
Start simple. Add complexity only when the simple system breaks.
your doorbell can be part of a techno-authoritarian surveillance state and an ICE collaborator.
Damn, Hulk Hogan was pretty gross. Amazing how hard it is to shake off my image of him from Saturday Morning Cartoons. (Same with Superfriends - DC will always seem like the REAL superheroes 'cause of that dang cartoon)