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Ryan shared this tech­nical video spoof:

Rockwell’s retro-​​encabulator is a refinement of the turbo-​​encabulator, which Chrysler demon­strated to the world in a 1980s instruc­tional video, although the design dates to at least 1946. Apparently work continues.

Ryan asserted we should produce nonsense jargon-​​laden material like this to describe our work. Indeed, it’s odd that software engi­neering has little such fictional self-​​deprecation, but maybe that’s because our disci­pline is still immature enough that our real work is worse than fiction.