A Lannister Always Pays His Technical Debts
A tale of two rewrites Jamie Zawinski is kind of a tech legend. He came up with the name “Mozilla”, invented that whole thing where you can send HTML in emails, and more. In his harrowing work diary of how the Mosaic web browser came to be, Jamie described the burnout rodeo that was the development of what was later going to become Netscape (the top disclaimer has its own history — ignore it):