Logs of Duty: Migration projects
From bold initiative to historical artifact.
Rule #1: A rewrite is a migration. Rewrites are scary. Migrations sound safer. So always label rewrite work as migration, even when you’re changing languages, data models, and mental health.
Rule #2: Don’t spend too much time planning. Let the target architecture emerge organically through half-finished diagrams. Anyway, the plan will quickly become outd…
