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Tangent to the whole thing: digging through the archives is referred to as “spelunking” in the article. I’ve heard people referring to reading and interpreting legacy code as “archaeology”. What other fun metaphors do we have for looking through old stuff?
I tend to think of looking into the typical awful.systems topic areas as sewer diving
In that sense, as with sewer diving, there's a sweet spot of anosmia.
I don't think there's an elegant Greek-derived word for "hey, look at what I just stepped in"
Perhaps not, but maybe "zemblanity", a word I found by searching "serendipity but bad":
Per ness labs, which the only context I have for it is that it isn't a dictionary.
excuse me good sir, that's under the department of societal maintenance
(no I don't really think that pompously of it but at least the tracking and awareness side of it is not all that far removed either)