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Dave Copeland :ruby:

Apologies for a substack link but this is a fast read and a great eye-opener/reminder that the best skill to cultivate as a developer is the ability to quickly learn new things.

“My 20 Year Career is Technical Debt or Deprecatet” blog.visionarycto.com/p/my-20-

The Visionary CTOMy 20 Year Career is Technical Debt or DeprecatedBy Matt Watson

@davetron5000 Another good thought on this is to get good at migrations... They are a standard part of the software lifecycle... While that article covers things that have fallen in and out of favor... For example, I have some personal code artifacts going strong 20 years later, with an unrecalled number of data migrations (blog posts).

@danmayer That’s a great article and I agree - a true migration is not easy to do and takes careful planning and time, but is the way