Something that stuck with me from a previous job is the quote: “don’t underestimate things that have survived many attempts to kill them.”

Think: DNS, bash, C, TCP.

These things have survived this long for a reason. Find out the reason.

@samwho @genehack see also: vim, emacs, irc.

Heck, two of those have been actively trying to put each other out of the running for decades now.