https://jharmison.dev/tags/atomicism/ Recent content in atomicism on james Hugo en-us jharmison@gmail.com (James Harmison) jharmison@gmail.com (James Harmison) <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC 4.0</a> Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:41:00 -0400 https://jharmison.dev/posts/bootc/01-atomicism/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:41:00 -0400jharmison@gmail.com (James Harmison) https://jharmison.dev/posts/bootc/01-atomicism/ <h2 id="the-big-idea"> the big idea <a href="#the-big-idea" class="anchor-link"><svg class="heading-link-icon" viewBox="0 0 24 24" width="18" height="18" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" fill="none" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"> <path d="M10 13a5 5 0 0 0 7.54.54l3-3a5 5 0 0 0-7.07-7.07l-1.72 1.71"></path> <path d="M14 11a5 5 0 0 0-7.54-.54l-3 3a5 5 0 0 0 7.07 7.07l1.71-1.71"></path> </svg></a> </h2> <p>In 2003 a mega nerd published a paper titled <em><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190421081837/https://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/iscsd-scm11-final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Integrating Software Construction and Software Deployment</a></em>. In this paper, Eelco Dolstra identifies all the things wrong with packages from the perspective of the software author that I mentioned <a href="https://jharmison.dev/posts/bootc/00-intro">previously</a>. I didn&rsquo;t come up with all of these ideas myself, alas.</p>