Versioning

Names and numbers that keep every draft distinct: v03 is not v02, final_final is a confession. History you can navigate.

Versioning is memory for iterative work: each state saved as itself, numbered by convention, so any earlier decision can be revisited and any regression traced. Its absence has a famous smell, final_v2_FINAL_reallyfinal, which is not a joke but a symptom of history kept in filenames and fear.

Code solved this with proper version control, and this site lives in exactly that, every change a described commit, reversible forever. Media pipelines approximate it with disciplined naming, dated folders and locked increments at milestones, offline v07, picture lock, online v01. The principle is identical: never overwrite the past; supersede it, legibly.