{"id":319,"date":"2004-01-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-19T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/01\/20\/252\/"},"modified":"2004-01-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-19T23:00:00","slug":"252","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/01\/20\/252\/","title":{"rendered":"The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artima.com\/intv\/simplestP.html\" title=\"The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work\">Ward Cunningham<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;I actually enjoy complexity that&#8217;s empowering. If it challenges me, the complexity is very pleasant. But sometimes I must deal with complexity that&#8217;s disempowering. The effort I invest to understand that complexity is tedious work. It doesn&#8217;t add anything to my abilities.<\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine once said that there are problems and there are difficulties. A problem is something you savor. You say, &#8222;Well that&#8217;s an interesting problem. Let me think about that problem a while.&#8220; You enjoy thinking about it, because when you find the solution to the problem, it&#8217;s enlightening.<\/p>\n<p>And then there are difficulties. Computers are famous for difficulties. A difficulty is just a blockage from progress. You have to try a lot of things. When you finally find what works, it doesn&#8217;t tell you a thing. It won&#8217;t be the same tomorrow. Getting the computer to work is so often dealing with difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>The complexity that we despise is the complexity that leads to difficulty.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interview with Ward Cunningham: &#8222;I actually enjoy complexity that&#8217;s empowering. If it challenges me, the complexity is very pleasant. But sometimes I must deal with complexity that&#8217;s disempowering. The effort I invest to understand that complexity is tedious work. It doesn&#8217;t add anything to my abilities. A friend of mine once said that there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}