Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/17
Every now and then you bump into an interesting post on a workflow you already have but did not know the name for.
This time it is [Wayback/Archive] Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method which has this nice definition:
A Zettelkasten is a personal tool for thinking and writing. It has hypertextual features to make a web of thought possible. The difference to other systems is that you create a web of thoughts instead of notes of arbitrary size and form, and emphasize connection, not a collection.
I thought a bit about it and it feels quite a bit like this blog: the ~5k draft posts at the time of writing are similar to a Zettelkasten: short notes with title and links either internally or externally.
These drafts are private, but the actual blog posts are either public (already published: some 8k at the time of writing) or queued for publication (some 2 years at the time of writing).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/01
Yet another interesting article on Technical Debt: BBC News – Why banks are likely to face more software glitches in 2013.
Note that this is not limited to Banks. I’ve seen quite a few companies in the Financial domain, and they all suffer from it.
Even stronger: all companies I visited suffer from Technical Debt, including my own workplace, hence I created a special Technical Debt post category and tagged some previous posts with it.
It is hard to produce software without any Technical Debt, even though I try the best I can or am allowed to spend.
Therefore it is very important as a developer to be aware of Technical Debt, and help spread knowledge about it.
–jeroen
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