Change over time — phases, evolution, restoration, rollback. How things grow, mend, and move on.
The taking in of something until it is no longer separate. Absorption ends the boundary that made two things two.
To bring a thing from ready into running. The moment potential becomes operation.
The bringing of a thing from ready into running. The moment potential becomes operation.
Change that fits a thing better to its conditions. Adaptation is not improvement in general — only for where it is.
To make a small change so a thing fits better. Adjustment assumes the thing was nearly right.
To bring a thing to bear on a case. Also to put oneself forward for consideration.
A trying that may not succeed. Naming something an attempt is what makes failure survivable.
The keeping of work without being asked. It protects against the loss nobody plans for.
A copy kept elsewhere against loss of the original. A backup nobody has restored from is a hope, not a backup.
To stop a thing before it completes. Cancelling leaves the intention on record and the act undone.
To bear a thing along. Also to hold a burden over time — the same word for transport and for endurance.
What makes a change happen faster without being consumed by it. A catalyst enables and is not spent.
A thing becoming other than it was. Change is only visible against something that stayed.
The removing of what is no longer needed. Cleanup is a judgment about what stopped belonging.
To bring to an end, and to shut. Also nearness — the same word for ending a thing and for being beside it.
The state of having nothing left to do. Completion must be defined in advance or it never arrives.
A sequence that returns to where it began. A cycle repeats without necessarily staying the same.
To take a thing out of running while leaving it present. Deactivation is not removal.
Loss of quality by stages rather than all at once. Graceful degradation means less is offered rather than nothing.
To put a made thing into the place where it will actually run. Deployment is where a build meets reality.
The putting of a made thing where it will actually run. Deployment is where a build meets reality.
The marking of a thing as no longer preferred, before removing it. Deprecation is a warning given in advance so nothing breaks unannounced.
The growing of a thing toward what it is becoming. Development assumes a direction and does not guarantee arrival.
Where a thing stops, and what it was for. The same word for its finish and its purpose.
To get out of what was holding you. Also to mark a character so it is read as itself rather than as an instruction.
Change accumulated across generations, keeping what works. Evolution has direction without having intent.
Proceeding by accumulated change across generations. Of a process with direction and without intent.
The carrying out of what was planned. Execution is where a design meets what is actually there.
Growth outward into more room than before. Expansion adds reach and takes something to sustain.
To reach further than before. Extension adds to what is there rather than replacing it.
To make a broken thing work again. Also to hold a thing in place — the same word for repairing and for fastening.
Increase over time by a thing's own working. Growth is not addition — it comes from within what is already there.
To become whole again after damage. Healing is not undoing — what heals carries the mark.
Proceeding by small additions rather than all at once. Incremental work is checkable at every step.
A held environment where something fragile can develop until it can survive outside. Protection with an end in view.
The setting of a starting state before anything runs. Initialisation decides what is true before the first act.
To set a thing to its starting state before use. Initialisation decides what is true before anything happens.
To put a thing into place so it can be used. Installation is setup that persists.
The putting of a thing into place so it can be used. Installation is setup that persists.
Bounded pieces of work queued to be done. A job is defined by being finishable.
The whole course of a thing from beginning to end. A lifecycle names the stages a thing must pass through.
To bring a thing into place ready for use, and the weight so brought. What is carried, and the act of taking it up.
The work of keeping a thing as it should be. Maintenance produces nothing new and is the reason anything lasts.
To move from one ground to another and settle there. Migration carries what it can and leaves what it cannot.
To fix a thing in place so it can be used, and to bring it into a running system. Both make a thing present and held.
To change position. Also to affect deeply — the same word for shifting a thing and for shifting a feeling.
To destroy entirely rather than repair. A deliberate total removal, named for its bluntness.
The bringing of a newcomer to the point where they can act. Onboarding is where a system says what it expects of people.
To carry out, and to do before an audience. Both mean acting in a way that can be judged.
To continue past what would have ended it. Also to write a thing down so it survives the session.
The property of outlasting the moment that made it. Persistence is what turns state into memory.
One distinct stage of a longer process, with its own character. Phases follow; they do not overlap.
The keeping of a thing against loss and decay. Preservation is active work, not storage.
A movement through stages in order. Also a sequence of chords — both are steps that imply where they are going.
To remove entirely and without remainder. A purge that leaves traces was not one.
The return toward a former state after damage. Recovery is rarely restoration — what returns is changed.
To fetch again so what is shown matches what is. Refreshing trades effort for currency.
To load again so what is shown matches what is. Reloading discards the current state to get a true one.
The taking of a thing out of where it was. Removal should leave a record, since absence otherwise looks like never-was.
To take a thing out of where it was. Removal is a decision about belonging, and should leave a trace.
Repair: the mending of a recording in named steps, each step replayed from the source samples and each step reported. A noise profile is learnt from a span of near silence and subtracted by a spectral gate. A click is found by transient detection and filled by cubic interpolation. A breath is found as a quiet broadband run between phrases and dipped rather than cut. The steps stand as a chain, and the chain always works from the samples as they arrived rather than from the output of the step before it, so a step can be retuned or dropped without the mending compounding. The channels handed in are never written to — new channels come back, and with them a report for every step, saying what was found and what was done to it. Channels of samples, a rate, a region and each step's parameters in.
To do again what was done. Repetition is how a thing becomes a practice, and how it becomes a rut.
To put one thing where another was. Replacement fills the role and is not the same thing.
What takes the place of something removed. A replacement fills the role and is not the same thing.
To return a thing to a known starting state. A reset discards what accumulated, on purpose.
What remains, and the ceasing of effort. In this house the second sense is honoured and never prescribed to another.
The bringing back of a thing to a former condition. Restoration returns the form; the interval is never returned.
To bring a thing back to a state it held before. Restoration returns the form and never the interval.
The rearranging of a whole's parts and their relations. Restructuring changes what is possible without changing what is there.
To attempt again after failing. Retrying assumes the failure was of the moment rather than of the method.
The returning of a system to a prior known state. A rollback undoes an attempt without pretending it never happened.
To carry a process through from start to finish. Also one such carrying, considered as a single event.
To set apart what was together. Separation is a judgment about where the boundary truly falls.
To move from one position to another. Also a span of working time. Both are displacements.
The act of joining by putting one's name down. The threshold where a visitor becomes a member.
To pass over without stopping. Skipping is a choice, and an unrecorded skip looks exactly like an absence.
A step in a sequence, and a raised place where things are shown. Both mean a position passed through and witnessed.
One movement in a sequence of movements. A step assumes a next one, and a place to have come from.
To cease. A stop is an ending that could have continued, which is what distinguishes it from finishing.
To hand a thing over for consideration. Also to yield — the same word for offering and for giving way.
To receive into one's hold, or to remove from another's. The same word for accepting and for seizing.
One bounded piece of work with a done state. A task is defined by being finishable.
The passage between two states. The interval itself, held as a thing with its own duration and shape.
A change so deep the thing becomes another kind. Transmutation is not alteration — what comes out is not what went in.
The small thing that releases a much larger one. A trigger supplies no force; it only removes what was holding it.
To move to a newer or higher form. An upgrade is a claim of improvement and is not always one.
One dated state of a thing among its several. Versions let a thing change without losing what it was.
To move on foot, unhurried. Also to traverse a structure node by node — both take the whole path rather than jumping.