{"id":2126,"slug":"technical-debt","name":"technical debt","type":"concept","created_at":"2026-08-08T04:45:43.619397+00:00","hidden":0,"aliases":[],"episodes":[{"id":"cb2152bb-0579-4c99-8c36-48f606bec191","slug":"s19e09-two-easy-pieces","subject":"s19e09: Two Easy Pieces","title":"Two Easy Pieces","publish_date":"2025-04-04T19:49:27+00:00","year":2025,"month":4,"season":19,"episode":9,"episode_label":"s19e09","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s19e09-two-easy-pieces/","is_premium":0,"word_count":1873,"context":" … and exactly how much you are willing to tolerate in terms of pain or <mark>technical debt</mark> before doing something about it.\n\n... and when you wish the previous owner … ","reading_minutes":9},{"id":"7e397d58-c262-425c-b71b-4504d5826d58","slug":"s11e23-you-cant-make-people-decide","subject":"s12e23: You can't make people decide","title":"You can't make people decide","publish_date":"2022-06-17T19:13:19.072000+00:00","year":2022,"month":6,"season":12,"episode":23,"episode_label":"s12e23","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s11e23-you-cant-make-people-decide/","is_premium":0,"word_count":2655,"context":" … There's <mark>technical debt</mark> because there's too much to do.\n\nAh, you say. But the amount of <mark>technical debt</mark> is\nincreasing\n. And if we do not do … ","reading_minutes":13},{"id":"be44db11-3eff-4052-b3b7-b322881410e3","slug":"s09e29-new-clouds-spreadsheets-half-lives-snow","subject":"s09e29: New clouds; Spreadsheets; Half-lives; Snow Crashing chapters 17 and 18","title":"New clouds; Spreadsheets; Half-lives; Snow Crashing chapters 17 and 18","publish_date":"2021-05-17T22:18:35.868203+00:00","year":2021,"month":5,"season":9,"episode":29,"episode_label":"s09e29","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s09e29-new-clouds-spreadsheets-half-lives-snow/","is_premium":0,"word_count":2828,"context":" … Organizational half-life and <mark>technical debt</mark>\n\nA\nsuper\ninteresting thread from Will Demaine at Monzo about\nengineering organization half-life\n. I will try to summarize:\n\nYou have to … ","reading_minutes":14},{"id":"427e14e9-eab0-4b51-8d1e-cf192fad6a72","slug":"s09e16-irritated-about-content-moderation-a-few","subject":"s09e16: Irritated About Content Moderation; A Few Small Things","title":"Irritated About Content Moderation; A Few Small Things","publish_date":"2021-04-16T17:44:54.121093+00:00","year":2021,"month":4,"season":9,"episode":16,"episode_label":"s09e16","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s09e16-irritated-about-content-moderation-a-few/","is_premium":0,"word_count":3278,"context":" … Caretaking, stewarding, housekeeping\n\nYvonne Lam [\nTwitter\n] wrote a great thread about <mark>technical debt</mark>:\n\nMy theory of tech debt is that housework is the correct metaphor for the thing … ","reading_minutes":16},{"id":"2a7f5d5f-7319-48bd-bc57-d1fa393a464f","slug":"s2e05-unblocking","subject":"s2e05: Unblocking","title":"Unblocking","publish_date":"2015-07-21T00:00:00+00:00","year":2015,"month":7,"season":2,"episode":5,"episode_label":"s02e05","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s2e05-unblocking/","is_premium":0,"word_count":701,"context":" … It's a good article. \"Legacy\" bank mainframe systems are fucked, they've built up too much <mark>technical debt</mark> as a result of not knowing how to approach … ","reading_minutes":4}]}