{"id":335,"date":"2008-01-08T16:30:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T06:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=335"},"modified":"2008-01-08T16:30:44","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T06:30:44","slug":"baby-got-bloat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/08\/baby-got-bloat","title":{"rendered":"Baby Got Bloat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the whole incipient git obsession I&#8217;ve been cleaning out some of my scratch dirs. In one, last touched in mid-2006, I found:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>\n<i>\nOh. My. God.\nBecky, look at that bloat!\nIt's so big...\nIt looks like one of those Microsoft products...\nWho understands those Microsoft guys anyway?\nThey only code that crap because they're paid by the line...\nI mean the bloat...\nIt's just so slow...\nI can't believe it's so laggy...\nIt's just bloated...\nI mean, gross...\nLook, that just ain't a Hack.<\/i>\n\nI like big apps and I cannot lie.\nYou other bruthas can't deny,\nThat when some perl comes by, not a symbol to waste\nLike line-noise, cut and paste --\nYou're bewitched;\nBut now my context's switched,\nCoz I notice that glest's got glitz.\nOh BABY! I wanna apt-get ya,\nCoz you got pictures,\nThose hackers tried to warn me,\nBut the bling you got\n\/Make me so horny\/\nOooo, app fantastic,\nYou say you wanna fill up my drive?\nWell, use me, use me, coz you ain't that average GUI.\n\nI've seen them typing,\nTo hell with reciting,\nI point, and click, and never miss a single trick.\n\nI'm tired of tech websites,\nSayin' command lines are the thing.\nAsk the average power user what makes them tick --\nYou gotta point and click.\n\nSo hackers! (Yeah!) Hackers! (Yeah!)\nHas your UI got the G? (Hell Yeah!)\nWell click it (click it), click it (click it), and use that healthy glitz,\nBaby got bloat.\n\n(vi code with a KDE UI...)\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And before you ask, no, I don&#8217;t know what I was drinking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the whole incipient git obsession I&#8217;ve been cleaning out some of my scratch dirs. In one, last touched in mid-2006, I found: Oh. My. God. Becky, look at that bloat! It&#8217;s so big&#8230; It looks like one of those Microsoft products&#8230; Who understands those Microsoft guys anyway? They only code that crap because they&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}