{"id":8520,"date":"2018-08-19T07:40:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T11:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=8520"},"modified":"2018-08-25T08:31:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T12:31:51","slug":"decoding-inabiaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=8520","title":{"rendered":"Decoding INABIAF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Used to be, in the realm of software, that bugs would turn out to be features in disguise. Nowadays it more often goes the other way around: functions presented to us as features are revealed to be bugs. As part of <em>Wired<\/em>&#8216;s 25th anniversary celebration, I have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/its-not-a-bug-its-a-feature\/\">piece<\/a> on the history of the catchphrase &#8220;it&#8217;s not a bug, it&#8217;s a feature.&#8221; A taste:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A quick scan of Google News reveals that, over the course of a single month earlier this year, <em>It\u2019s not a bug, it\u2019s a feature<\/em> appeared 146 times. Among the bugs said to be features were the decline of trade unions, the wilting of cut flowers, economic meltdowns, the gratuitousness of Deadpool 2\u2019s post-credits scenes, monomania, the sloppiness of Neil Young and Crazy Horse, marijuana-induced memory loss, and the apocalypse. Given the right cliche, nothing is unredeemable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/its-not-a-bug-its-a-feature\/\">Read it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/insectman\/190648582\/in\/photolist-hR8bw-4xautV-9ZPRDn-7Umjfw-FYRMKk-hpcKm-oHPJLW-8jC1tY-4XEFBL-76KwKH-cwNqHU-gDH2C-2n5myW-xV7g4u-Vud38q-5vwoNx-HTd4k-5eQ55w-8KKgH1-gc96t-e61NG2-9Vdzxs-WZBk53-6eZHoE-WvozpN-3wVhej-75i6Rf-3adXco-UTx3mu-6X9rZF-2A4wX8-kpPkme-8i2mZS-3cp6pi-89oECe-V4k6-22kpiPF-6o1LWn-6RuHV9-51wE5T-iQYiCp-6Mwpx-9H332d-a6xCHf-4Y5GgN-fa9WP-6a2i5x-3mHLqy-gdgQKC-f4QaRW\">Nigel Jones<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Used to be, in the realm of software, that bugs would turn out to be features in disguise. Nowadays it more often goes the other way around: functions presented to us as features are revealed to be bugs. As part of Wired&#8216;s 25th anniversary celebration, I have a piece on the history of the catchphrase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8520"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8542,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520\/revisions\/8542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}