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2023

Tech debt metaphor maximalism (via) I’ve long been a fan of the metaphor of technical debt, because it implies that taking on some debt is OK provided you’re strategic about how much you take on and how quickly you pay it off. Avery Pennarun provides the definitive guide to thinking about technical debt, including an extremely worthwhile explanation of how financial debt works as well.

# 8th July 2023, 5:11 am / software-engineering, technical-debt, avery-pennarun

2021

100 years of whatever this will be. This piece by apenwarr defies summarization but I enjoyed reading it a lot.

# 2nd December 2021, 8:37 pm / internet, avery-pennarun