Retries are inevitable
Over a network, a client that times out cannot know what happened. So it will retry — and the system must be built to survive that.
Garden
Smaller, interconnected notes that change over time. Each carries a maturity marker instead of a claim to be finished.
Garden feed- Seedling
- A first, rough planting of an idea.
- Developing
- Taking shape; revised from time to time.
- Evergreen
- Reasonably settled, though still open to revision.
Recently tended
The Ship of Theseus
If every plank of a ship is replaced, one at a time, is it still the same ship? A compact statement of the puzzle and its best-known variant.
Identity over time
Questions about what makes something persist through change — and an unexpected echo of them in software.