<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr">Hi</div><div class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div class="gmail_attr">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.</div><div class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div class="gmail_attr">Here's the details: Thursday 26 May, 6:30 to 7:30pm UK time.<br>Zoom URL: <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09</a><br>UK Time Now: <a href="https://time.is/UK" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://time.is/UK</a>.<br></div><div class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div class="gmail_attr">And here's some definitions. According to Wikipedia</div><div class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">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.</blockquote><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> In open source software, postponing sending local changes to the upstream project is a form of technical debt.</blockquote><div class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div class="gmail_attr">Also according to Wikipeda</div><div class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">"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.<br></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">XP co-founder Ron Jeffries has written: "Always implement things when you actually need them, never when you just foresee that you need them."</blockquote><div class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div class="gmail_attr"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt</a><br></div><div class="gmail_attr"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it</a><br></div><div class="gmail_attr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">And for those who are sighted, some links to xkcd.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="https://xkcd.com/292/" target="_blank">https://xkcd.com/292/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="https://xkcd.com/844/" target="_blank">https://xkcd.com/844/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="https://xkcd.com/1579/" target="_blank">https://xkcd.com/1579/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="https://xkcd.com/1695/" target="_blank">https://xkcd.com/1695/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="https://xkcd.com/2054/" target="_blank">https://xkcd.com/2054/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="https://xkcd.com/2138/" target="_blank">https://xkcd.com/2138/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="https://xkcd.com/2347/" target="_blank">https://xkcd.com/2347/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Finally, Blaise Pascal in 1657 apologised for sending a long letter because he didn't have sufficient time to write a short one. See <a href="https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/" target="_blank">https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/</a>.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Wishing you happy coding</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Jonathan</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_attr"><br></div>
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