Weathering Software Winter

Hundred Rabbits on building software that lasts. Their approach to resilience — targeting older hardware, avoiding dependencies, keeping things small — resonates with how I think about personal tools. The web doesn't have to be heavy.

What strikes me most is their commitment to Uxn, a small virtual machine they built to run their software on. It's the kind of decision that looks extreme until you realize it means their tools will work on anything that can run a simple VM — which is everything, forever.

Compare this to the average web application that breaks if you look at it wrong after six months of dependency rot. There's something to be said for building on a foundation you control completely.