“[I]f you cut corners in the short term, you’re borrowing against the future maintainability of the software and that at some point, not unlike a credit card, you’ll pay down that debt by going back and fixing the hacky solutions that were put in... | Growing Desperate | Just some white guy. I used to write about software stuff. Nowadays I’m looking for ways to put out the myriad dumpster fires people like me set, stoke, and pour gasoline on since forever ago.