Protected by Scarecrow

Software is fun to write! The trick, though, is to write the software that people actually need. There I was, with an application that’d been stable for months (untouched by human hands! Self-repairing!)

Don’t look at me like that. The question gets sort of interesting, if you’ll just stare at it (instead of me) long enough. All right, I admit it: I didn’t think there was much to it, way back when we decided to mess with this stuff.

It’s probably nearly always a good idea to separate the people who maintain a server from the people who maintain your backups. Also: why backups, essential though they are, are just not the point.