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A developer always pays their technical debts – oh, every penny... but never a groat more

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Most of my technical debt is in code I wrote back when I first started working here and was a very inexperienced programmer. At the time I had my name on the contributor lists for a couple open source projects, just enough to prove that I did know the basics despite being self taught. 15 years and an actual CS degree later I occasionally go to update a really old project from early on and shudder at some of the naive choices I made back then.

For the record, I've stayed where I am mostly because getting a higher paying job would involve moving. There just aren't any jobs in the area for programmers - which was probably a factor in me getting this job before I had a degree - and there are half a dozen reasons I don't want to move.

Anon for, I think, obvious reasons.

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