https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-HomeWords/pages/063-oiling-the-wheels-picture/

Those of you lucky enough to be going to #declarativeAmsterdam will get to see this picture used in a talk i’m giving - who will maintain XML systems when we have all retired?

#oilingTheMachinery #XML #victorianMachinery #vintageArt #fobo #GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #engraving #metaphor

“oil is certainly not more necessary for machinery than for the comfortable and easy working of the complex and wonderful framework of our moral nature.”