Can other people continue working on your projects if you are hit by a bus tomorrow? How long would it take them to start making changes that actually mean something? Could they even get started? In other words, what's your project's Bus Factor? The Bus Factor [http://en.wikipedia.org/
When a critical service goes down, what happens to your apps? Do they go down too? Should they? Or should we plan for the service not being available? My team's experiences dealing with a major crash left us asking these questions. The Crash Just after lunch this past Thursday, my
> A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch
A junior programmer (let's call him Luis) and I were working to find a particularly stubborn Heisenbug [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug] (a bug that seems to disappear when you attempt to study it) this last week, and it was kicking our collective butts. This thing was just
Behold! What follows is the best code I have ever written and will ever write. Even I, its creator, am awestruck at its flexibility and simplicity. It is a marvelous thing! It cannot break, does exactly what it was designed to do, and will not ever need to be refactored.