“Legerdemain and PFM” is my way of describing the techniques I have learned or invented over many years of making things right again.
“Legerdemain ” because the definition of mastery is knowing how to disguise your mistakes, so a kind of sleight of hand is often at play when you are trying to resurrect the dead. 😀
“PFM” is an acronym I learned at the phone company, coined by older techs who learned to work on mechanical “step” switches that processed calls physically – you could actually watch the relays close as a call went though the office.
When the world of digital came to telephone land, some of the old hands could not wrap their heads around the concept of calls being processed across silicon junctions, and connections being ephemeral – existing only as long as they were in use.
To them, it was “pure fucking magic,” or PFM.
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