Chris F. Carroll @chrisfcarroll@social.cleverlibre.org

There is no bug that cannot be made more difficult to debug by adding another layer of indirection

Small steps
https://www.wired.com/2001/10/slugbot-enemy-of-slugs/

TIL that the HTML spec has a section about forgiving base64.

https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/#forgiving-base64

Probably the funniest thing I've seen on microservices.

https://www.slideshare.net/jeppec/event-driven-architecture-integration-tech-event-2019#3

Are cosmic ray bit-flips common enough to make voting machines unfit for purpose? The smaller the electronics, the less energy a bit flip takes. Nice discussion of bitflip examples:
https://radiolab.org/podcast/bit-flip/transcript

Was the real value of OO that it was/is a good vehicle for Responsibility Driven Design?

It is easy to code Roles, Responsibilities, Collaboration and Contracts in OO languages.