Null automation

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I love the idea of null automation.

It’s one of these small but neat tricks. Sometimes you’d like to automate something, but you don’t want to go all in: maybe you don’t have the time yet, or you’re unsure of the effort, or the process is just not mature enough yet to commit to the effort and rigidity of creating automation.

Preserving information is quality assurance

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One of the great things about writing code is that it allows you to preserve information that might otherwise be lost.

Half-assing leads to whole crashes

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One of my aerospace engineering professors said that “engineering is the art of cheating, and getting away with it”.

Agile by panic

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Many organisations, even the most stuck-up ones (or perhaps especially those?) sometimes work in an Agile fashion.

The Apollo space program was an agile program

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I frequently hear the claim that Agile only works for software.

Millipedes don't fall in cracks

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Have you ever watched a millipede go about its business?

They’re interesting creatures. If you have, maybe you’ve observed one navigate a crack in the floor, or other such gap.