The title of this post is a riff on Brent Simmons’ latest post, which I encourage you to read. He contrasted his current experience with Mac and iOS development with that of UserLand Frontier that he helped develop with Dave Winer in the early 1990s. Balder Bjarnason linked to this on Mastodon, and added a useful additional thought: This is something I’ve had a hard time convincing young devs of: substantial portions of the field of software in the past used to be better in multiple ways....
