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  1. LLM (noun): a machine used by software teams to turn piles of cash into technical debt

    #LLM #AI #software #TechDebt #TechnicalDebt #coding #AmbroseBierce

  2. LLM (noun): a machine used by software teams to turn piles of cash into technical debt

    #LLM #AI #software #TechDebt #TechnicalDebt #coding #AmbroseBierce

  3. LLM (noun): a machine used by software teams to turn piles of cash into technical debt

    #LLM #AI #software #TechDebt #TechnicalDebt #coding #AmbroseBierce

  4. LLM (noun): a machine used by software teams to turn piles of cash into technical debt

    #LLM #AI #software #TechDebt #TechnicalDebt #coding #AmbroseBierce

  5. You do not have to freeze feature work to upgrade Rails... 🤷

    Go one minor version at a time, because there are simply too many changes between minors to leap safely. .

    go.fastruby.io/seu

    #RailsUpgrade #TechnicalDebt #Ruby

  6. You do not have to freeze feature work to upgrade Rails... 🤷

    Go one minor version at a time, because there are simply too many changes between minors to leap safely. .

    go.fastruby.io/seu

    #RailsUpgrade #TechnicalDebt #Ruby

  7. Mainframes have been declared dead for decades.

    Oddly enough... nobody seems to have told the banks, the airlines, the governments or the companies still processing millions of transactions every single night.

    ithorrorstories.eu/#rant01

    #mainframe #it #legacyit #technicaldebt #technology

  8. Mainframes have been declared dead for decades.

    Oddly enough... nobody seems to have told the banks, the airlines, the governments or the companies still processing millions of transactions every single night.

    ithorrorstories.eu/#rant01

    #mainframe #it #legacyit #technicaldebt #technology

  9. Mainframes have been declared dead for decades.

    Oddly enough... nobody seems to have told the banks, the airlines, the governments or the companies still processing millions of transactions every single night.

    ithorrorstories.eu/#rant01

    #mainframe #it #legacyit #technicaldebt #technology

  10. Mainframes have been declared dead for decades.

    Oddly enough... nobody seems to have told the banks, the airlines, the governments or the companies still processing millions of transactions every single night.

    ithorrorstories.eu/#rant01

    #mainframe #it #legacyit #technicaldebt #technology

  11. Mainframes have been declared dead for decades.

    Oddly enough... nobody seems to have told the banks, the airlines, the governments or the companies still processing millions of transactions every single night.

    ithorrorstories.eu/#rant01

  12. Planning a Rails upgrade usually starts with a blank page and A LOT of guesswork!

    We built a free tool that generates an upgrade roadmap for you, either generic across versions or customized by connecting your GitHub repo.

    It runs on OpenAI models that do not keep or learn from your data.

    Generic plans list every possible deprecation, so you still filter what applies, but it beats starting from zero.

    Check it out: go.fastruby.io/hrw

    #RailsUpgrade #Ruby #TechnicalDebt

  13. Planning a Rails upgrade usually starts with a blank page and A LOT of guesswork!

    We built a free tool that generates an upgrade roadmap for you, either generic across versions or customized by connecting your GitHub repo.

    It runs on OpenAI models that do not keep or learn from your data.

    Generic plans list every possible deprecation, so you still filter what applies, but it beats starting from zero.

    Check it out: go.fastruby.io/hrw

    #RailsUpgrade #Ruby #TechnicalDebt

  14. 🐪🔤 In a riveting tale of font frustration, our brave protagonist faces the Herculean task of rendering Arabic text, only to discover it’s like trying to teach a camel to tap dance. The page ends up looking like a Picasso painting and we're left wondering if the real technical debt isn't just a Ponzi scheme of misplaced pixels and misplaced priorities. 🤦‍♂️✨
    lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/ #fontfrustration #cameltoetapdance #Arabictext #technicaldebt #misplacedpixels #HackerNews #ngated

  15. 🐪🔤 In a riveting tale of font frustration, our brave protagonist faces the Herculean task of rendering Arabic text, only to discover it’s like trying to teach a camel to tap dance. The page ends up looking like a Picasso painting and we're left wondering if the real technical debt isn't just a Ponzi scheme of misplaced pixels and misplaced priorities. 🤦‍♂️✨
    lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/ #fontfrustration #cameltoetapdance #Arabictext #technicaldebt #misplacedpixels #HackerNews #ngated

  16. 🐪🔤 In a riveting tale of font frustration, our brave protagonist faces the Herculean task of rendering Arabic text, only to discover it’s like trying to teach a camel to tap dance. The page ends up looking like a Picasso painting and we're left wondering if the real technical debt isn't just a Ponzi scheme of misplaced pixels and misplaced priorities. 🤦‍♂️✨
    lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/ #fontfrustration #cameltoetapdance #Arabictext #technicaldebt #misplacedpixels #HackerNews #ngated

  17. 🐪🔤 In a riveting tale of font frustration, our brave protagonist faces the Herculean task of rendering Arabic text, only to discover it’s like trying to teach a camel to tap dance. The page ends up looking like a Picasso painting and we're left wondering if the real technical debt isn't just a Ponzi scheme of misplaced pixels and misplaced priorities. 🤦‍♂️✨
    lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/ #fontfrustration #cameltoetapdance #Arabictext #technicaldebt #misplacedpixels #HackerNews #ngated

  18. 🐪🔤 In a riveting tale of font frustration, our brave protagonist faces the Herculean task of rendering Arabic text, only to discover it’s like trying to teach a camel to tap dance. The page ends up looking like a Picasso painting and we're left wondering if the real technical debt isn't just a Ponzi scheme of misplaced pixels and misplaced priorities. 🤦‍♂️✨
    lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/ #fontfrustration #cameltoetapdance #Arabictext #technicaldebt #misplacedpixels #HackerNews #ngated

  19. 🤷🏼‍♂️ Most small Rails teams skip tech debt work because they think it needs a quarter-long project. It doesn't.

    Monthly cadence: upgrades, dependency updates, bundle-audit + Brakeman + bundler-leak scans.

    Compounding gains beat one or two tech debt remediation sprints per year.

    go.fastruby.io/upg

    #TechnicalDebt #RubyOnRails #RailsMaintenance

  20. 🤷🏼‍♂️ Most small Rails teams skip tech debt work because they think it needs a quarter-long project. It doesn't.

    Monthly cadence: upgrades, dependency updates, bundle-audit + Brakeman + bundler-leak scans.

    Compounding gains beat one or two tech debt remediation sprints per year.

    go.fastruby.io/upg

    #TechnicalDebt #RubyOnRails #RailsMaintenance

  21. Tech debt and bad code aren't the same.

    Technical debt is a deliberate trade-off. Bad code is spaghetti, magic numbers, copy-paste with no plan.

    Fowler split debt into 4 quadrants. Google found 10 types...

    go.fastruby.io/mtw

    #TechnicalDebt #SoftwareEngineering #CodeQuality

  22. Tech debt and bad code aren't the same.

    Technical debt is a deliberate trade-off. Bad code is spaghetti, magic numbers, copy-paste with no plan.

    Fowler split debt into 4 quadrants. Google found 10 types...

    go.fastruby.io/mtw

    #TechnicalDebt #SoftwareEngineering #CodeQuality

  23. After a decade modernizing government systems, I learned that technical debt is often policy, knowledge, and organizational debt—not bad code. hackernoon.com/what-a-decade-i #technicaldebt

  24. After a decade modernizing government systems, I learned that technical debt is often policy, knowledge, and organizational debt—not bad code. hackernoon.com/what-a-decade-i #technicaldebt

  25. After a decade modernizing government systems, I learned that technical debt is often policy, knowledge, and organizational debt—not bad code. hackernoon.com/what-a-decade-i #technicaldebt

  26. After a decade modernizing government systems, I learned that technical debt is often policy, knowledge, and organizational debt—not bad code. hackernoon.com/what-a-decade-i

  27. After a decade modernizing government systems, I learned that technical debt is often policy, knowledge, and organizational debt—not bad code. hackernoon.com/what-a-decade-i #technicaldebt

  28. Tech debt doesn't show up in a postmortem. It shows up in how long it takes to ship a small change...

    Bloated controllers, unmaintained gems blocking upgrades, commented-out failing tests. Small refactoring beats big rewrites.

    go.fastruby.io/3h5

    #TechnicalDebt #RubyOnRails #LegacyCode

  29. Tech debt doesn't show up in a postmortem. It shows up in how long it takes to ship a small change...

    Bloated controllers, unmaintained gems blocking upgrades, commented-out failing tests. Small refactoring beats big rewrites.

    go.fastruby.io/3h5

    #TechnicalDebt #RubyOnRails #LegacyCode

  30. Looks like the Technical Debt Collection Service is about to impact FLOSS and other projects and organisations that aren't really prepared 😟

    twit.tv/shows/security-now/epi

    #TechnicalDebt #ClaudMythos #InfoSec

  31. Looks like the Technical Debt Collection Service is about to impact FLOSS and other projects and organisations that aren't really prepared 😟

    twit.tv/shows/security-now/epi

    #TechnicalDebt #ClaudMythos #InfoSec

  32. Looks like the Technical Debt Collection Service is about to impact FLOSS and other projects and organisations that aren't really prepared 😟

    twit.tv/shows/security-now/epi

    #TechnicalDebt #ClaudMythos #InfoSec

  33. Looks like the Technical Debt Collection Service is about to impact FLOSS and other projects and organisations that aren't really prepared 😟

    twit.tv/shows/security-now/epi

    #TechnicalDebt #ClaudMythos #InfoSec

  34. Looks like the Technical Debt Collection Service is about to impact FLOSS and other projects and organisations that aren't really prepared 😟

    twit.tv/shows/security-now/epi

    #TechnicalDebt #ClaudMythos #InfoSec

  35. There is no phased migration plan to eliminate technical debt. You do it all in one year, or you're not serious about it.
    #technical_debt #technicaldebt #technicalDebtManagement

  36. There is no phased migration plan to eliminate technical debt. You do it all in one year, or you're not serious about it.
    #technical_debt #technicaldebt #technicalDebtManagement

  37. There is no phased migration plan to eliminate technical debt. You do it all in one year, or you're not serious about it.
    #technical_debt #technicaldebt #technicalDebtManagement

  38. There is no phased migration plan to eliminate technical debt. You do it all in one year, or you're not serious about it.
    #technical_debt #technicaldebt #technicalDebtManagement

  39. There is no phased migration plan to eliminate technical debt. You do it all in one year, or you're not serious about it.
    #technical_debt #technicaldebt #technicalDebtManagement

  40. When your dev team asks to refactor, they're not making a technical request. They're asking you to fund a business decision. Most founders either rubber-stamp it or veto it. Both are wrong.

    The right move: ask what problem it solves, what the smallest version looks like, and how you'll know it's done. If they can answer in plain language, the refactor is real.

    lambdalynx.dev/technical-debt-

    #FractionalCTO #TechnicalDebt

  41. "Brace for Patch Tsunami" -- AI used in the hands of "skilled and knowledgable" people is supposedly going to surface a vast pool or latent bugs (technical debt .. be very afraid). Reports here and elsewhere ndicate that like most AI claims, it's mostly slop. Apparently AI is not being used by "skilled and knowledgable individuals" willing to actually verify that AI found anything real or is just wrong.
    #technicaldebt #bugs #defects #ai
    theregister.com/2026/05/02/ncs