A lot of engineering advice focuses on building systems.
That makes sense — systems scale, scripts are reusable, automation saves time.
But not every task deserves that treatment.
Sometimes I just need to share a small piece of data for context.
Not as a deliverable.
Not as something to maintain.
The moment I start thinking about where to store it or how to document it, I know I’m overthinking.
There are plenty of “correct” solutions.
They just don’t match the lifespan of the problem.
So instead, I aim for the shortest path that doesn’t leak into the rest of the codebase.
In one case, I encoded the content to keep it intact across systems, using a quick online encoder (mmtocm.net), shared it once, and let it disappear.
That was enough.
Some problems don’t need to be solved — just handled briefly and forgotten.
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