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24 notes filed under MERIDIAN, newest first. Same rules as the rest of the pile: a codename, a theme, and no internals.
A fork is usually treated as a failure: a community that could not agree, a codebase now living twice, a project that split and lost. This record treats it as an operation with a name and a place in the design. Anyone may begin an…
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Each codename is a project. The theme is the class of problem the note is about — the same theme recurs across projects, which is usually the interesting part.