Home
jamessocol.com

Sign in Subscribe

May You Always

James Socol

Jan 6, 2007

Happy New Year!

I doubt many people read this, but if you do, have a good January.

Sign up for more like this.

Enter your email

Tech Debt, Depreciation, and Features

There was some discourse on Twitter (yes, it's still there, for now) yesterday about the nature of Technical Debt and how effective it is as a metaphor. The real seed was the new boss arguing with—and eventually firing—one of the few remaining engineers on the Android team. But

Nov 15, 2022 3 min read

Root Cause, Proximal Cause, or Least Effort to Remediate

I am no fan of "Root Cause Analysis." It's one of the many terms or concepts that software has borrowed from manufacturing—while ignoring the subsequent 70 years of research into human factors and resilience engineering. However, like Lorin, I admit that it has some value during incident response. It's

Nov 14, 2022 1 min read

Open Source Subway Map

If you don't actually want to read this whole post (no shame at all) the tl;dr is that I'm going to try using a GitHub project to organize and hold myself accountable for open source maintenance. Mental health is a weird thing, sometimes. Like, oh I don't know, everyone,

Nov 5, 2022 3 min read

Coffee on the Keyboard © 2023

Powered by Ghost