What Chris Wellons thinks about innovation

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Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.

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4 Oct 2026

Our readingBespoke, written-to-order software is likely the future of software

Their wordsThis sort of bespoke, written-to-order software is likely the future of software. Why bother with one-site-fits-all when an exactly-sized solution has the same cost?

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