{"id":443,"date":"2010-03-25T13:10:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T19:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/?p=443"},"modified":"2010-03-25T13:10:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T19:10:45","slug":"bit-rot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/443","title":{"rendered":"Bit rot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love bit rot. Well, OK, maybe I don&#8217;t love that it happens (then again, maybe I do). I guess I love &#8216;bit rot&#8217;. It seems to be a farcical analogy at first glance, but there&#8217;s some depth to it, and that somehow adds a certain sort of liveliness to software, in that it&#8217;s subject to decay.<\/p>\n<p>For those who aren&#8217;t aware of the term, Wikipedia <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bit_rot\">gives a decent definition<\/a>, in the &#8220;Problems with software&#8221; section. I might say it this way: if the world around it changes but your code doesn&#8217;t, it&#8217;s probably rotting. That violates our deepest wish that software could be written once and left to run forever of its own accord, but it&#8217;s simply a fact of life, or at least a good way to accumulate billable hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love bit rot. Well, OK, maybe I don&#8217;t love that it happens (then again, maybe I do). I guess I love &#8216;bit rot&#8217;. It seems to be a farcical analogy at first glance, but there&#8217;s some depth to it, and that somehow adds a certain sort of liveliness to software, in that it&#8217;s subject [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}