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Re:How can you not be romantic about programming? (2020) on Monday February 22, 2021 @12:44PM (#26227533)
Maybe it's unique to me as a sysadmin previously and now as an SRE, but I quite enjoy gluing things together. Something about taking stuff that doesn't interoperate directly and forcing it to do so is elegant in its own right, without having to resort to scorching the earth and rebuilding everything from scratch.
Re:I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit on Thursday February 13, 2020 @05:46PM (#22322167)
I always referred to this practice as “tarpitting”, I was surprised to see nobody else here does!