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Engineering

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Cybersecurity Jul 4, 2026 • 5 min

What a Restaurant Kitchen Teaches You About Secure-by-Construction

A commercial kitchen stays safe by how it is built and run, not by a final inspection. That is secure by construction, and it is the same instinct behind good engineering: design the hazard out before it can happen.

Lessons Learned May 28, 2026 • 8 min

Chesterton's Fence: Do Not Remove What You Do Not Understand

Software maintenance accounts for 50 to 80 percent of a system's total lifecycle cost, according to decades of engineering research summarized in the peer-reviewed literature on maintenance economics. A large share of that money is spent touching things nobody currently understands....