https://aftermarket.dev/tags/explainer/ Recent content in explainer on Aftermarket.dev Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://aftermarket.dev/what-a-software-aftermarket-is-and-why-you-already-use-one/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://aftermarket.dev/what-a-software-aftermarket-is-and-why-you-already-use-one/ Every developer has fixed software they didn’t write. Most of us just don’t call it that. You put nginx in front of an old app to add a header it forgot. You wrote a shim so a client from 2017 could keep talking to a rewritten API. You patched a vendor’s config file, watched the next upgrade wipe your change, and patched it again. Somebody on your team keeps a script that “fixes the export” every Monday morning.