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 &amp; Mattias Wadman implemented jq in jq.

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Show Notes:
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<li><a href="https://www.maxcountryman.com/articles/a-framework-for-prioritizing-tech-debt">A framework for prioritizing tech debt</a>
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<li><a href="https://changelog.fm/379">Good tech debt featuring Jon Thornton from Squarespace</a></li>
</ul>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/shadcn/ui">UI components to copy/paste into your apps</a>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode">kelseyhightower/nocode</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.radix-ui.com">Radix UI</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://www.simplethread.com/20-things-ive-learned-in-my-20-years-as-a-software-engineer/">Things I’ve Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer</a></li>
<li><a href="https://initialcommit.com/blog/git-sim">Visually simulate git operations with git-sim</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/wader/jqjq">jq implementation of jq</a>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/wader/fq">fq is jq for binary formats</a></li>
</ul>
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