May, 16, 2023 archives

the nickel diner opened around the same time that we opened raw materials, and they’ve just announced that they're going to be closing at the end of the month.

they will be sorely missed. we have still been avoiding indoor dining and they stopped seating people outside, so it has been a couple of months since we indulged, but we will definitely have to at least pick up some takeout in the next couple of weeks.

My 20 Year Career is Technical Debt or Deprecated

Everything eventually becomes tech debt, or the projects get sunsetted. If you are lucky, your code survives long enough to be technical debt to someone else.

i rather liked this piece on the ever-changing nature of software tools and how entropy catches up with us all, but what a focus on technical debt doesn't quite capture is the underlying value. old code has accumulated a lot of knowledge and value. it's why you don't just rewrite from scratch.

scat pos has been a one-person project for over a decade. at this point, it has literally encoded my experience in how to manage our retail store. you could throw it all away; start from scratch, or just switch to an off-the-shelf solution. but you would be throwing away a lot of accumulated knowledge and value.