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The best worst hack that saved our bacon

jeffersonheard.ghost.io published 2025-10-013 min read

No-one really likes engineering war stories, but this one's relevant because there's a moral to it. I've talked before about defining technical debt as technical decisions that provide immediate value, but with long-term negative impact if they aren't cleaned up. Sometimes introducing technical debt

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