A Ballad of Lament
Engineers have a curious relationship with their tools. Take Confluence, a platform many love to hate. It’s clunky, inconsistent, and often a source of frustration. As engineers curse its name when they’re forced to hunt through disorganized pages or wrestle with broken permissions. But even in our disdain, there is a kind of grim acceptance. Confluence, for all its flaws, is a familiar beast—predictable in its chaos, manageable with enough effort and has some features that we come to enjoy like markdown support and imbedded graphs. What engineers often forget, however, is the immutable law of systems: there is always something worse out there. ...