Thoughts
I'm such an idiot. The entire premise behind modern minimalist is flawed. It's the Long Now clock. I literally said it.
*The Modern Minimalist* is an (unpublished) framework for developing software that operates over long timescales. It tries to answer the question 'how do you design software that is going to still be maintainable in 20 years.' Because there's a weird trend where software that should still function is replaced due to technical obsolesce or lack of maintenance or whatever.
But this is really the same (non-)problem that The Long Now Foundation is trying to solve with their clock. And I mocked them by saying, "The issue of course, that you need people interested in repairing your stuff. But if people don’t care, then that’s not exactly a fault of the technology."
=> https://thoughts.learnerpages.com/?show=27975adb-07d4-4d01-a63c-b1d98e5217d1
I will still probably write Modern Minimalist at some point, because it's really something different. If you want your software to work in 20 years, the best way to do that is creating a company around it and paying someone to rewrite it every 3 years. But that's not what The Modern Minimalist is talking about because that's not "Minimal." It captures the "modern" part but not the "minimal" part. The dream of the Modern Minimalist is being able to write code now that is modern in 20 years while doing the minimal amount of work. But I think there is definitely an aspect of it where you need to ensure that the problem you're solving will still exist in 20 years and that people will still be interested in maintaining your software.