Bongo Cat

Back in 2006, a while after the passing of my previous cat (Kira), I became the new subordinate of two six week old sibling tuxedo kittens, Buzz (male) and Blossom (female). They were pre-named by the cat rescue place and I didn't have any better ideas, and so those names stuck for a while. Explaining "Blossom" was sometimes a challenge if you know me, 20st at the time, petrol head, beer, curry, other things, but do love cats.

Anyway, Buzz grew into this almost 5ft long (but not fat, or overweight) slightly clumsy cat in his "teens"; there was a laptop flooded by a glass of water, a not inexpensive B&W speaker broken by an attempted leap (grrr)...usual cat stuff.

Privately I started calling him "Bongo", I don't know why, it just seemed appropriate, and suited him. I also started calling Blossom, his sister mini-bongo around the house, but then mini-puss. Blossom was the runt of the litter (there were three cats in the photo, I offered to take all of them, Buzz was the middle cat, Blossom was the tiny one).

Anyway just a story.

Sadly Bongo (Buzz) passed away due to kidney issues at the age of 10 back in 2014. I miss him, he was so good natured (as is Blossom) and an amazing lump of feline friendlyness, seeing this today brought a wee tear to my eye.

Anyway, some links to these awesome pals:

https://imgur.com/bMr725m ("Bongo")

https://imgur.com/YGZZOAW (Younger days)

https://imgur.com/oq124oJ ("Bongo...again")

https://imgur.com/Fsgmqsd (When Buzz broke into a bag of paperwork when I left the house for a couple of hours)

https://imgur.com/NZLsF59 (They still managed to squeeze into their kitten bed somehow even after five years)

https://imgur.com/voqjl0F (Blossom, pretty much today, a bit of a lopsided sit, but 14 and a half years old and still as crazy as ever).

If you are writing in a modern framework, this is now not possible, without really, intentionally, breaking a lot of things to be able to do so.

> It seems these frameworks are mostly about enforcing a code style, best practices when dealing with large teams with very different experience levels.

Its more like finally having a real programming language, but for backwards compatibility, you can still peer under your framework and libraries and see all the nonsense that used to be available.

> Since I work mostly alone and clients don't care what tech stack I choose, I guess I'm in luck.

Most likely if you're a single person working on such projects, you usually won't hit the complexity needed to justify these tools. That said, since most modern work is being done within them, you are also missing out on the ability to leverage those capabilities when needed. But fair enough!