INTAKE 2023-0001Shelf · live specimen
Shelf, a reading list

Still alive. Under watch.

Shelf is a small reading-list app with a few years of cruft. AFTERLIFE watches which of its features are still used, and retires the ones that are not.

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TitleAuthorStatus
The Pragmatic ProgrammerDavid Thomasread
AccelerateNicole Forsgrenread
Working in PublicNadia Eghbalreading
Team TopologiesMatthew Skeltonto-read
Designing Data-Intensive ApplicationsMartin Kleppmannread

The graveyard

Where Shelf's unused features go, with the evidence and what removing them saved.

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retired
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hibernating
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resurrected
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protected
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