Cold-blooded software: how to build projects that survive long dormancy
TL;DR A blog post uses the painted-turtle lecture anecdote to contrast "warm-blooded" software that needs constant activity with "cold-blooded" projects…
Cold-Blooded Software: How to Build Projects That Survive Long Pauses
TL;DR A developer draws an analogy between cold-blooded animals and software projects, arguing some codebases are built to survive long…
Why unglamorous, decades-old software still powers the modern global infrastructure
TL;DR A long-running opinion piece argues that many decades-old technologies — from COBOL and mainframes to C, SQL, Linux and…