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by: Jonathan Fine - Thu, 26 May 2022 12:49 UTC

The subject for tonight's TeX Hour is Technical Debt. I'm particularly interested in small problems that can be easily solved, and in hard problems that cause catastrophic risk. All contributions are welcome, particularly those related to TeX, accessibility and technical documentation.

Here's the details: Thursday 26 May, 6:30 to 7:30pm UK time.
Zoom URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09
UK Time Now: https://time.is/UK.

And here's some definitions. According to Wikipedia

> In software development, technical debt (also known as design debt or code debt) is the implied cost of additional rework caused by choosing an easy (limited) solution now instead of using a better approach that would take longer.

> In open source software, postponing sending local changes to the upstream project is a form of technical debt.

Also according to Wikipeda

> "You aren't gonna need it" (YAGNI) is a principle which arose from extreme programming (XP) that states a programmer should not add functionality until deemed necessary.
> XP co-founder Ron Jeffries has written: "Always implement things when you actually need them, never when you just foresee that you need them."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it

And for those who are sighted, some links to xkcd.
https://xkcd.com/292/
https://xkcd.com/844/
https://xkcd.com/1579/
https://xkcd.com/1695/
https://xkcd.com/2054/
https://xkcd.com/2138/
https://xkcd.com/2347/

Finally, Blaise Pascal in 1657 apologised for sending a long letter because he didn't have sufficient time to write a short one. See https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/.

Wishing you happy coding

Jonathan

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