TECHNICAL DEBT is like a ROTTING ROOF

On rainy days, it's too wet to fix it.
On sunny days, there's no leak… so you ignore it.
Then one day, boom, ceiling caves in, buckets everywhere, and you're duct taping production at 2am.

That's technical debt.
Not just messy code. Not just bad practices.
It's what you chose not to fix when you could have.

The missing tests.
The config you hardcoded "just for now".
The abstraction you skipped because "it works".
The one extra iteration after the ticket was marked as "done".

And now it's slowing you down.
It's holding your future hostage.
You're spending engineering cycles bailing water, not shipping value.

We love to say we're "building", but half the time we're just… leak managers.
You can't scale rot.

So next time the sun's out, fix the roof.
Because when the rain hits, it's too late.

#TechnicalDebt #SoftwareEngineering #Minimalism #DevEx #LegacyCode #BuildRight #PragmaticEngineering #TechLeadership #CodeQuality #DeveloperExperience #SustainableSoftware #TeamVelocity #FixTheRoof

The Free Lossless Audio Codec (#flac) is now an IETF standard!

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9639.html

Thanks to everyone who worked to document and clarify this important format for sound and music archive and exchange on the internet, to Martijn van Beurden for maintenance of the reference implementation, and to Josh Coalson for originally publishing his work for everyone to use.

In 2000, I read about CI/CD, but there weren’t tools yet (CruiseControl came out in 2001). So, we implemented CI by having a physical card that had to be on your desk in order to commit code. Then, you had to go over to our build (desktop) machine, get your code, run the build/test scripts (and fix if you broke them).

We eventually automated it all, but just that step saved a lot of “works on my machine” bugs from breaking our builds.

#extremeprogramming #softwareengineering

Just published a first release candidate of axum v0.8.0! If you're using axum, would be great if you could give it a try and let us know if there's any issues.

https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum/releases/tag/axum-v0.8.0-rc.1

#rustlang #axum

Programming VS Demon Summoning

#programming #programmer_humor #programmerhumor #demon #summoning #Cthulhu

We ran this Humble Bundle last year and it was so popular it's been brought back for a three-day encore. If you want to grab a bunch of my novels AND support a nifty charity (First Book, which gives books to kids), come get it!

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/john-scalzis-interdependency-old-mans-war-and-more-tor-books-encore

TIL "object safety" has been renamed "dyn compatibility"? This is so much better, good move on the Rust lang team imho

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/reference/items/traits.html#dyn-compatibility