Midterms

They've only gone and done it! Congratulations America, USA! USA! USA!

If you don't mind, I'm going to enjoy this with you. I know how hard you've worked, but kept going when everything seemed against you. Through your perseverance, strength and will, you've finally got there, and I'm just gonna big fat live it all vicariously through you!

I'm not a Yank, but by golly, sweet Mary Lou, I sure as shit have been through what you've just done.

You've done all you can when really you shouldn't have had to in the first place. It was never your shitshow. But let's face it, the cunts that did were never gonna scrub the bastard clean! It was an emergency and your ridiculous legacy system simply isn't designed to allow hotfixes.

It was increasingly clear that your creaky old vulnerable system had some pretty fucking critical structural issues.

Putting a legacy system like that through change control would send shivers down even the worst nitpicking knobhead. But here we are.

Nearly 250 years of technical debt, an architecture no cunt understands and documentation that's treated as sacred fucking scripture. Two teams of fuckwits trying to one up each other, yet neither of them can agree on the bloody problem, let alone the fix it.

But now you've had your $100bn review, made your changes and replaced a few of the cunts responsible for this shit, some of which I'm not entirely convinced were actually fucking alive!

A fresh set of mits, a new support team, dare I say it, even a little enthusiasm for once.

I don't want to piss on your parade, but don't get carried away.

It's not over.

You've only upgraded the support systems, not the fucking live environment.