Entries tagged 'technical debt'

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.