You call it tech debt I call it malpractice (Changelog & Friends #12)

Go Time panelist (and semi-professional unpopular opinion maker) Kris Brandow joins us to discuss his deep-dive on the waterfall paper, his dislike of the “tech debt” analogy, why documentation matters so much & how everything is a distributed system.

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Featuring:

• Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• “Waterfall” doesn’t mean what you think it means
• Kris’s Go Time take on the tech debt analogy

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!