“Well, that started as a stream of consciousness about equal parts nuptial rights and Structured Query Language and finished up moving into graph theory, something I, for one, did not see coming.”

The recent Supreme Court decision in the US has brought to light an unexpected opponent to marriage equality - database administrators.

Dubbed the Y2Gay bug, government departments across the America have been rushing to deploy software patches to correct their now incorrect assumptions about marriage

“People’s minds are heartbreaking. Not because people are so bad, but because they’re so good.”

From a twee little 4chan meme, comes a deep and beautiful short story. I think what makes it special is the subtle optimism it brings to the idea of the heat death of the universe.

“All of this gives you evidence to prove the safety of your code before you deploy it to your entire userbase.”

In his talk and article “Move fast and break nothing”, Zach Holman from GitHub subverts the famous Facebook motto.

Through the use of Science™, new code can be measured against existing code and in essence tested by the user’s shadow.