Originally coined by Martin Fowler in the early 2000s, the "Strangler Pattern" is a software pattern that can be applied in situations where a legacy system has become difficult to maintain, but still provides important business value. It may be too risky or expensive (in terms of time or money or both) to rewrite and replace the system wholesale. Instead, following the strangler pattern involves building around the existing system, gradually supplanting it, usurping its features with newly-written code or third-party utilities before eventually choking the life out of the old system like the strangler fig from which this pattern takes its name.

To take a concrete example, if we imagine a large monolithic system for running an e-commerce store, it might include features like a customer database, complex pricing models for setting the cost of products, the ability to track inventory, send order confirmation emails, and process credit card payments. Over the course of months or years,

Dead Internet Theory proposes that the overwhelming majority of the content you encounter on the Internet is not the product of living human minds, but something else entirely. Under this theory, the rare human browser is like a rat trapped in a maze built by unseen intelligences, manipulated by impostors and algorithms for their own opaque purposes. That lukewarm product review, the pointed

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It has come to the attention of some residents of the nodegel that, at the time of this writing, there are no nodes (or nodeshells) for side quest, sidequest, or even side-quest*. Likewise, there is neither node nor