<![CDATA[Fits on a Floppy: A Manifesto for Small Software]]>Fits on a Floppy: A Manifesto for Small Software

https://fitsonafloppy.com/

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Software should be as small as it can be. Not as a gimmick, but as a discipline. The floppy disk is the measuring stick: 1.44 MB. If the software that ran entire businesses could fit in that space, then a modern, focused, single-purpose tool certainly can.
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]]>https://forum.other.li/topic/3068062b-d42a-4289-b664-6ed724cc39f9/fits-on-a-floppy-a-manifesto-for-small-softwareRSS for NodeFri, 05 Jun 2026 07:25:19 GMTMon, 18 May 2026 14:59:01 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Fits on a Floppy: A Manifesto for Small Software on Mon, 18 May 2026 18:29:51 GMT]]>@lproven Well said. In a similar way I think games should be as small as possible. There are some things that make games better, but I shouldn't need a state of the art computer to play it.

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/VANTABlack2000/statuses/116596997609152130https://forum.other.li/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/VANTABlack2000/statuses/116596997609152130Mon, 18 May 2026 18:29:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fits on a Floppy: A Manifesto for Small Software on Mon, 18 May 2026 15:42:54 GMT]]>@lproven 👍 "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://social.ivor.org/users/ivor/statuses/116596341120561613https://forum.other.li/post/https://social.ivor.org/users/ivor/statuses/116596341120561613Mon, 18 May 2026 15:42:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fits on a Floppy: A Manifesto for Small Software on Mon, 18 May 2026 15:21:52 GMT]]>@lproven
@bert_hubert has an excellent blog series on exactly this:
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/a-2024-plea-for-lean-software/
with running code!
https://berthub.eu/articles/trifecta/
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/trifecta-technology/

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://bsd.network/users/overunderlay/statuses/116596258390502574https://forum.other.li/post/https://bsd.network/users/overunderlay/statuses/116596258390502574Mon, 18 May 2026 15:21:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fits on a Floppy: A Manifesto for Small Software on Mon, 18 May 2026 15:09:49 GMT]]>@lproven Mine does. Sort of.

The deb package is 1044 kB if I don't include the GUI library dependencies which at least on Linux are provided by the OS, and remove the PDF manual which is online anyway.

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://mastodon.online/users/veronica/statuses/116596211023528417https://forum.other.li/post/https://mastodon.online/users/veronica/statuses/116596211023528417Mon, 18 May 2026 15:09:49 GMT