This rant is as much a case study of the recent #Voyager1 mission news (https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/10/28/after-pause-nasas-voyager-1-communicating-with-mission-team/) as it is a response to the utterly on-point stuff that @ludicity said yesterday in their blogpost:

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/why-i-will-always-be-angry-about-software-engineering/