Why tech debt doesn’t get fixed

Subscribe: https://lwj.dev/newsletter — a story about a habit I picked up working in restaurants, and how the lesson I learned still helps me write better software to this day. Written version: https://lwj.dev/blog/clean-as-you-go Chapters: 0:00 I used to make huge messes 0:34 My second chance 0:54 There's no way this works, right? 1:11 What changed when I adopted the habit 1:45 What does this have to do with code? 2:00 How small messes ruin codebases 2:21 Consequences 2:46 Cleaning as you go in code 3:11 Building the habit