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Written by Jamie Lawrence on 2024-08-25 at 10:33

How keeping an #aquarium is like software development:

• It looks pretty

• Other people make theirs look prettier

• It’s a complex system with many invisible variables

• The users can’t express their needs or pains

• It degenerates over time and requires constant maintenance

• Every time you try to clean it up, you make a mess

• It fails in different ways at different scales

• Parasites and viruses ruin everything

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Written by Jamie Lawrence on 2024-08-25 at 16:50

Refactoring in progress #aquarium

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Written by Jamie Lawrence on 2024-09-02 at 09:43

Added the plants back this weekend #aquarium #tropicalfish #aquascape

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Written by Tim Riley on 2024-08-25 at 10:34

@jamie Sounds like a pretty leaky abstraction to me

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Written by Jamie Lawrence on 2024-08-25 at 10:36

@timriley oh Christ, that’s only happened once but now I have network of leak sensors for observability

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Written by Tim Riley on 2024-08-25 at 10:38

@jamie Sounds wise! So to add to that list:

"Going to prod is always more work than you expect”

😅

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Written by Jamie Lawrence on 2024-09-02 at 09:44

Final form looked like this #aquarium #tropicalfish #aquascape

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Written by Tim Riley on 2024-09-02 at 11:24

@jamie Looks fantastic! I also just realised that maybe all your hobbies are water-based? 😆

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Written by Jamie Lawrence on 2024-09-02 at 14:50

@timriley this is true!

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