You call it tech debt I call it malpractice
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 ātech debtā analogy, why documentation matters so much & how everything is a distributed system.
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Zed Tan
Singapore
Documentarian.
2023-09-03T14:45:17Z ago
š hello! re: hiring archivists & librarians, reminder that we, technical writers, exist! š
and you interviewed one of us ā¦ 7 years ago! https://changelog.com/rfc/5
weāre a diverse bunch who could have library sciences, info studies degrees, communication, computer science etc. degrees and years of domain knowledge, and our entire jobs are to keep your stuff usable and your documentation in good shape š
Jerod Santo
Bennington, Nebraska
Jerod co-hosts The Changelog, crashes JS Party & takes out the trash (his old code) once in awhile.
2023-09-06T11:44:57Z ago
A solid reminder! (We spoke with Eric again at OSCON in 2019) Iām curious what your position is inside your company? Do you go by ātechnical writerā or something else?
Zed Tan
Singapore
Documentarian.
2023-09-07T09:51:03Z ago
Nice! the short answer is ā¦ yes! Iām a ātechnical writerā š