Where does if flow?

 Rule of thumb: when something is advertised as "workflows" or "automation", that means you'll be given a crippled programming language with no subroutines, probably no loops, tacked on variables/expressions and no debugging whatsoever.

If read, why not write?

Some time ago I wrote a script to create an arbitrary self signed certificate. Then I made a DevOps pipeline task out of it. Now, I'm wondering about the same logic, running interactively.

I am globally unique, baby

UUIDs are supported everywhere these days. But what about binary compatibility?

Turducken or duckturken?

 A static library (a .a file) is a collection of object files. On MacOS, executable binary files can contain code for multiple CPUs - that is, an executable can be internally a collection of slices, each of them also an executable. 

Joomla 2 on PHP 7

 An archival instance of Joomla 2 broke on PHP 7.