Certain technology decisions lead to projects that are warm-blooded: everything is great when there’s constant motion on the project, generating heat. But put warm-blooded software in the freezer, and you’ll pull out a corpse six months later. - Cold-blooded software / HN

see also

• Making progress on side projects with content-driven development
• Can Software Be Durable? - We’re coming up on 50 years for Space Invaders. We can say that it’s endured because:
  • it’s self-contained: it works without dependencies, and with the hardware it was designed for
  • there’s an ongoing need: peope want to continue playing Space Invaders
  • it’s transposable: the environment it runs in can be recreated through additional layers (emulators here)
  • it’s recreatable: the core concepts behind Space Invaders can be reimplemented in the prevailing contexts of the time