it's fun being so experienced at computer touching that someone can start to describe computer weirdness to me and I can pick out how the builders of that system fucked it up
partner was telling me about inconsistent data in two sections of a thing she uses for work and she did not understand how it could show blatantly wrong data in one part since it clearly has the right data right there in the other part
and I'm just like "so let me tell you about this thing called microservices. once upon a time some programmers decided they didn't like working with other people..."