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Make It Ephemeral: Software Should Decay and Lose Data

Jonathan Stephens May 5, 2026
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> While outright deletion may not be the solution, irrelevant notes and documents showing up in searches add to the clutter and make finding useful information harder. “But I need my data sometimes years later” I hear you say. What about making it intentional? Archive them in year books. Make me intentionally “dig into the archives” if I really have to. There are many very intentional ways of dealing with this problem.

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