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Read Only

Read Only
Finally achieved that perfect state where everything works exactly as intended. No further modifications allowed. Touch nothing. Breathe carefully. The house has been deployed to production and any changes require a full sprint planning meeting and three layers of approval. Your kids wanting to move a chair? That's a breaking change. Someone leaving shoes by the door? File a pull request. The mental model of treating your living space like a codebase with strict version control is both deeply relatable and mildly concerning. chmod 444 reality.txt

House Stable Version

House Stable Version
Setting the house to read-only mode after cleaning is the most relatable version control strategy I've seen. Just like that production server you're too scared to touch, the house has reached its stable state and any modifications are strictly forbidden. The reply takes it to another level: someone ran chmod 600 on the toilet. For the uninitiated, that's Linux file permissions that make something readable and writable only by the owner—except now it's a toilet that won't flush because guest users lack delete permissions. Classic case of overly restrictive access control causing a production incident. Should've used a staging environment before deploying to the main bathroom.

House Is Archived

House Is Archived
When you finally finish cleaning your house and immediately apply Git repository permissions to it. The house has been cleaned, committed, and pushed to production—now it's read-only mode, folks. No merge requests accepted. The beautiful parallel here is treating your freshly cleaned living space like a codebase that's achieved perfection. Just like when you archive a GitHub repo because it's "done" and you don't want anyone touching your masterpiece, the house is now in a frozen state. Any modifications would require forking the entire house first. The energy of protecting your clean house with the same intensity as protecting your main branch with mandatory code reviews and branch protection rules is honestly chef's kiss. Sorry family, you'll need admin privileges to move that couch.

House Is Archived

House Is Archived
When you finally achieve that pristine state of organization and immediately lock it down like a deprecated GitHub repo. The house is now in maintenance mode—look but don't touch. No new features, no bug fixes, just pure, untouched perfection that will inevitably get messy again within 24 hours. The "read-only" part hits different though. It's giving the same energy as when you mark a project as archived because you know the second someone touches it, merge conflicts will emerge from the void. Except instead of code, it's dishes in the sink and laundry on the couch.