On: Durable Design (2017)

[_mlxl]

"When an escalator breaks down, it becomes a set of stairs"

I heard this a while back from somewhere and it's something i've taken forward when trying to design complex systems in code.

Where possible fallbacks and fail safes should be part of the design, not after thoughts.

Nice article.

[oftenwrong → _mlxl]

>"When an escalator breaks down, it becomes a set of stairs"

That's one of Mitch Hedberg more famous "one-liner" jokes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Hedberg

[sixplusone → _mlxl]

when an escalator breaks down, it can speed up and injure or kill people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Rome_escalator_accident https://elevation.fandom.com/wiki/Elevator_incidents