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Read 9 days ago and current, but nothing has been published for 15 months.
Prologue Why is Part 0 published after Part 1? Well I wasn’t sure yet how to write the introduction to this series/book. Books in this category often start by explaining why the problem is worth learning, which feels a bit weird to me. If I’m reading the book I’ve already decided it’s worthy of my attention. Also I’m unlikely to be swayed by an author who has a vested interest in convincing me…
Prologue This blog is designed to be the first of a multi-part series. If I find the motivation it will become a book. My interest with computers really kicked off when I discovered Linux, the ability to inspect and understand what was going on, including reading the source code, enabled me to gain a much richer understanding of what my computer was doing and why things weren't working how I…
5 or so years ago a manager at my company, Leon Messerschmidt , gave a talk to our engineering department called “Why I don’t use the term Technical Debt and you shouldn’t either” and since then I’ve wanted to write my own view on this. Before then I had felt uncomfortable with the term, it seemed very subjective. In the talk Leon described how the term debt was often viewed as a good thing by…
