All code dies
Memento mori for software: the system you maintain with such care will be deleted — and writing while knowing that changes how you write.
stoic.log
Marcus Aurelius wrote his Meditations as a private journal — a log. This is mine: Stoic philosophy applied to the daily practice of building software.
You do not control the roadmap, the market or the pager. You control your craft, your judgment and your response. This log is about that second list.
Latest entries
The post-mortem is a premeditatio malorum
The Stoics rehearsed loss before it happened. Engineering calls this a pre-mortem — and almost never practices it.
You don't control the Friday deploy
The dichotomy of control applied to incidents: what Epictetus would say in the middle of a rollback at 6:47pm on a Friday.
Tracks
- Memento Mori
Everything you ship will be deleted. On legacy, rewrites, deprecation and the art of writing code you are ready to let go of.
- Premeditatio Malorum
The Stoic exercise of rehearsing failure — as engineering practice, not anxiety: post-mortems, chaos engineering and productive pessimism.
- The Dichotomy of Control
What actually depends on you in software work — and the peace of ignoring the rest. Roadmaps, layoffs and outages are not on the list; your craft, judgment and response are.