
These aphorisms are dedicated to people who’ll laugh at least once while reading them. For those who wouldn’t laugh even once, I suggest to re-read them again. If they don’t laugh even then, they are too serious and should be reading something else.

Entropy always wins; the only variable is how long you can hold it off and what tools you use to do so.
– Joan Westenberg, article on Medium

… but maintainers of legacy systems are treated as janitors rather than guardians.
– Joan Westenberg, article on Medium