Archiving Flash content before the plugin dies and the websites disappear forever:
https://blog.usejournal.com/adobe-flashs-gaming-legacy-thousands-upon-thousands-of-titles-and-my-efforts-to-save-it-58c14811558a
(Though there's still a need to preserve content using platforms that aren't about to die, the demise of Flash has spurred this project.)
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The impact of manufacturing costs and price sensitivity on book sizes:
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/03/cmap-5-why-books-are-the-lengt.html
Many of these constraints disappear for ebooks!
How much should we self-host services? I've been burned by using platforms that disappear, but they're just so convenient.
I don't understand the claim that static typing reduces unit tests. I can't think of any unit test I've written that would disappear.