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Software and Other Shenanigans
Personal blog · hydrick.netprogrammingsystemsstartups
Software and Other Shenanigans is a personal blog at hydrick.net about programming, systems and startups. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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You need to be keeping a ledger on technical debt, the same way any and all other "debt" is tracked - http://www.hydrick.net/?p=2394 "Here’s the thing, most of the time we do something that incurs technical debt, we know it then. It’d be nice if there’s a way for us to log the decisions we made, and the debt we incurred so we can factor it into planning and regular development work, instead of trying to pay it off w…
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