This is my favorite kind of software, to write and to use. I am reminded of Upton Sinclair's evergreen quote:

> It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!

in the special case where the thing to be understood is "your app doesn't need to be a Big Fucking Deal". Maybe it pleases some users to wrap this in layers of additional abstraction and chrome and clicky buttons and storefronts, but in the end the functionality is already there with a couple of FOSS projects glued together in a bash script.

I used to think the likes of Suckless were brutalist zealots, but more and more I think they (and the Unix patriarchs) were right and the path to enlightenment is expressed in plain text.