Opinion | Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance! (Published 2017)
Innovation is overrated. When it comes to technology, we need to celebrate upkeep.
What is maintenance, anyway? | Inside Rust Blog
Want to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look!
The Disappearing Art Of Maintenance
The noble but undervalued craft of maintenance could help preserve modernity’s finest achievements, from public transit systems to power grids, and serve as a useful framework for addressing climate change and other pressing planetary constraints.
Innovation is overvalued. Maintenance often matters more | Aeon Essays
Capitalism excels at innovation but is failing at maintenance, and for most lives it is maintenance that matters more
No Maintenance Intended
The linking project’s code is provided as-is, and is not actively maintained.
Logdown - Site Maintenance
Some notes on running new software in production
Some notes on running new software in production
Bluesky down? Current problems and outages - US
Real-time problems and outages for Bluesky. Is Bluesky down? Here you see what is going on.
Zen and the Art of Open Source Maintenance | Fabricated Technobloggle | Daryl Ducharme | Offprint
AI promises frictionless creation, but real software is maintenance—greasy hands, patience, and stripped screws. As panic over synthetic slop rises, how do we protect the open commons without locking the door against the next generation of self-taught builders?
Zen and the Art of Open Source Maintenance | Fabricated Technobloggle | Daryl Ducharme | Offprint
AI promises frictionless creation, but real software is maintenance—greasy hands, patience, and stripped screws. As panic over synthetic slop rises, how do we protect the open commons without locking the door against the next generation of self-taught builders?
Stripe Press — Maintenance
An in-depth exploration of maintenance, and a powerful argument for its civilizational importance.
Software engineering under the spotlight
Think of a tech company as a giant, dimly-lit factory. Work goes on throughout the factory as components shuffle back and forth, and finished products get steadily carted away, but the coordination and efficiency of each section is fairly low. Some parts of the factory get jammed up and don’t do anything for days. Other parts are manically producing broken components which are thrown away unused. However, the factory manager - i.e. the tech company CEO - has one tool to combat this problem. That tool is the spotlight.
