News: Prioritizing tech debt, UI components to copy/paste, learnings from 20 years in software, git-sim & jqjq

Max Countryman wrote up a framework for prioritizing tech debt, shadcn builds a copy/paste-able UI component library in public, Justin Etheredge shares 20 things he’s learned in his 20 years as a software engineer, Jacob Stopak’s git-sim lets you easily visualize git operations without affecting your repo & Mattias Wadman implemented jq in jq.

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Featuring:

• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• A framework for prioritizing tech debt
  • Good tech debt featuring Jon Thornton from Squarespace
• UI components to copy/paste into your apps
  • kelseyhightower/nocode
  • Radix UI
• Things I’ve Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer
• Visually simulate git operations with git-sim
• jq implementation of jq
  • fq is jq for binary formats

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Timestamps:

(00:00) - Intro (join Changelog++!)
(01:07) - A framework for prioritizing tech debt
(04:01) - UI components to copy/paste into your apps
(05:40) - Learnings from 20 years in software
(06:28) - Visually simulate git operations with git-sim
(07:10) - jq implementation of jq
(08:28) - Outro