Kintsugi (金継ぎ, "golden joinery"), also known as kintsukuroi (金繕い, "golden repair"), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.

The vicissitudes of existence over time, to which all humans are susceptible, could not be clearer than in the breaks, 404s and looping errors to which code is subject. This poignancy or aesthetic of existence has been known in Japan as mono no aware, a compassionate identification with, [things] outside oneself. voxels.com