{"id":1538,"date":"2026-09-11T16:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T05:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2026-09-11T16:04:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T05:04:45","slug":"a-lot-of-old-software-is-very-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/blog\/2026\/09\/11\/a-lot-of-old-software-is-very-good\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lot Of Old Software Is Very Good"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know I&#8217;ll have to use a combination of new\/in-house and old\/third-party components to build real products, I&#8217;m wondering whether I should build separate products though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It would be interesting to see what an OS from 20 or 30 years ago would look like if I just improved everything for usability instead of rushing to replace it with 900 layers of other shit to compete with Linux\/Windows\/Mac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(I guess it would look a bit like Haiku, which I recommend looking at if anyone likes nicely designed classic systems, although that&#8217;s mostly a newer rewrite based on old specs.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;ll have to use a combination of new\/in-house and old\/third-party components to build real products, I&#8217;m wondering whether I should build separate products though. It would be interesting to see what an OS from 20 or 30 years ago would look like if I just improved everything for usability instead of rushing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1541,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/1541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}