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Software's way of admitting yesterday's code was a polite suggestion.
means Small pieces of code or material applied to fix, update, or cover a flaw in something existing.
from From Old French pieche, a fragment of cloth sewn over a hole; the digital sense arrived when engineers stitched fixes over buggy code the same way.
Patch TuesdayMicrosoft's monthly ritual of mass-releasing fixes.
Pirate originEyepatches preserved night vision for going belowdecks.
Garden rootsA patch was once just a small plot of ground.