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+[[!meta title="The suckless agenda"]]
+
+ Laws of Computer Programming:
+ 1. Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
+ 2. Any given program costs more and takes longer.
+ 3. If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
+ 4. If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
+ 5. Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.
+ 6. The value of a program is proportional the weight of its output.
+ 7. Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of
+ the programmer who must maintain it.
+
+ -- fortune(6)
+
+# Subpages
+
+[[!inline pages="page(suckless*)" archive="yes"]]
+
+# Guiding principles
+
+Suckless: future-proof, present-friendly.
+
+* [The Critical Engineering Manifesto](https://criticalengineering.org).
+* [Software rot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_rot).
+* [The Mutt E-Mail Client](http://www.mutt.org/): "All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less".
+* [The Future Programming Manifesto](http://alarmingdevelopment.org/?p=893).
+* [Unix philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy).
+* [KISS principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle).
+* [suckless.org software that sucks less](http://suckless.org/).
+* [principles - IndieWebCamp](http://indiewebcamp.com/principles).
+* [Reduce, reuse, recycle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_hierarchy):
+ * Reduce: favor the simplest solutions and focus attention on specific problems;
+ * Reuse: work from experience and favor examples of current practice;
+ * Recycle: encourage modularity and the ability to embed. [reference](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microformat#Design_principles).
+
+## Contributions to the agenda
+
+ Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to
+ be maintained.
+
+ -- The Tao of Programming
+
+* [Security Specs](https://manual.fluxo.info/specs).
+* [Static site generation](/static).
+* [Metadot](https://metadot.fluxo.info) to manage dotfiles along with [a locally-installable applications repository](https://inception.fluxo.info).
+
+## Stuff currently being observed
+
+* [Neovim](http://neovim.io).
+
+## I should not install a software if
+
+I can solve my problem using:
+
+* A terminal and the related userland.
+* A text editor like `vim`.
+* A version control system like `git`.
+* A clean data format like markdown, yaml, dot or CSV.