Challenge 870 - Rinse and repeat
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m_findlowTitle: Rinse and repeat
Character: Tosh
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 200 words
Length: 200 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 870 - Repeat at ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
torchwood100
torchwood100Summary: Testing code is a laborious process. A double drabble.
Tosh loved Torchwood’s many sophisticated computer systems, but despite everything at their disposal, she still found them lacking in certain areas.
When she wasn’t hunting down junk spat out by the rift or preventing the annihilation of the planet, she liked to build the kinds of programs and analytical tools that Torchwood needed to be able to do its job well. They had so much data stored but no real way to take everything they knew about the objects in their archives and start connecting the dots. If they could do that, they’d have a lot less objects that had only a vague description of what they did, where they were from and whether anyone knew how they worked.
Working in that kind of information vacuum was dangerous. Who knew when something might go wrong, either an object reacting in a way no one expected, or being in a dire situation and not knowing that the technology they needed to make things right again was sitting there right under their noses, gathering dust.
Even for a programming genius though, that meant a lot of long hours writing code, running it over and over again, and hoping that it wouldn't crash.
Tosh loved Torchwood’s many sophisticated computer systems, but despite everything at their disposal, she still found them lacking in certain areas.
When she wasn’t hunting down junk spat out by the rift or preventing the annihilation of the planet, she liked to build the kinds of programs and analytical tools that Torchwood needed to be able to do its job well. They had so much data stored but no real way to take everything they knew about the objects in their archives and start connecting the dots. If they could do that, they’d have a lot less objects that had only a vague description of what they did, where they were from and whether anyone knew how they worked.
Working in that kind of information vacuum was dangerous. Who knew when something might go wrong, either an object reacting in a way no one expected, or being in a dire situation and not knowing that the technology they needed to make things right again was sitting there right under their noses, gathering dust.
Even for a programming genius though, that meant a lot of long hours writing code, running it over and over again, and hoping that it wouldn't crash.
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Date: 2025-06-22 09:28 am (UTC)