Smidgeons Stream

A lovely little write-up on how vibe code and legacy code are roughly the same thing; “code that nobody understands.”

I particularly like the framing that the problem is not the code but the missing understanding around it.

The original 1989 paper still reads as a better description of how cross-functional teams actually coordinate than most modern management books.

Tooltips and popovers without a single line of JavaScript. I have been waiting for this for about a decade.

A tiny thought: the constraint of a page I cannot resize forces decisions that an infinite canvas lets me defer forever.

An old paper that deserves a second life now that every product ships with a model inside it.

Rereading this fifteen years later. Almost everything it warned about happened, and almost none of the remedies were tried.