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First online article on technical debt
Ward Cunningham introduced the metaphor underlying the term technical debt in a 1992 experience report, where he described how his company incrementally extended a piece of financial software: Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rewrite. Objects make…
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Web Design Museum – Discover old websites, apps and software
Web Design Museum exhibits thousands of websites that chronicle forgotten trends in web design from its beginnings in the 1990s to the mid-00s. Source: Web Design Museum – Discover old websites, apps and software
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The Web We’ve (Never) Lost
Posted on July 28, 2024 by Jan Vlnas Based on my talk for PragueJS meetup from February 2024 Source: The Web We’ve (Never) Lost
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Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers by Andy Greenberg My rating: 4 of 5 stars This genre is at a great disadvantage, as any book that is older than a couple of months is already outdated or the mistery fully revealed when published.On the other hand,…
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Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury My rating: 5 of 5 stars A bleak vision of society where books are considered dangerous by the institutions, since it’s easier to rule a conformistic population. I read this long, long time ago and I always recalled the premise, but forgot about the reasons for burning the books. Unfortunately,…