7 posts on the planning stage of the lifecycle.
You can build every house on the street to code and still hand someone a neighbourhood that seizes the first time everyone leaves at once.
operating planning
Every shiny new database is a promise to learn, at three in the morning, exactly how it breaks.
planning operating
The rule that let everything on the internet talk to everything is the same rule that means nothing can ever be cleaned up.
implementing reviewing planning
The ugly working system you want to delete is a scar map of every wound it has survived, and you are about to throw the map away.
planning operating retiring
Types and tests guard the ground inside the compiler; past its edge, the only thing between you and disaster is a process someone bothered to build.
operating planning
Every fact you store twice is a promise to keep two things equal forever, and you will not keep it.
implementing planning
Every other material gets lighter when you take something away. Software is the one that fights you for the privilege.
retiring planning