Code, Noted· 3 min read
Y2K, reconsidered as a success
The disaster that did not happen is remembered as a panic that was wrong. The record says otherwise, and the difference matters for every deadline since.
#history#remediation#non-events
Tagged: history
5 articles
· 3 min read
On the colour of the bikeshed, sixty-nine years on
Parkinson's law of triviality is from 1957; the email that renamed it for software is from 1999. Both are quoted weekly and obeyed nowhere. On attention, consequence, and a budget for reviews.
#history#reviews#attention
· 1 min read
Ariane 5, thirty years on
The most expensive integer overflow in history is now three decades old. Its lesson was never about the cast.
#failures#reuse#history
· 2 min read
DevOps, fifteen years on
The word conquered the industry and dissolved into it. An audit of what the movement actually changed, what it renamed, and what it quietly gave up.
#delivery#devops#history
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Git at twenty, considered as organizational memory
The first commit landed in April 2005. Two decades on, the repository has quietly become the most honest historian most organizations employ.
#git#history#institutions