Tech Debt Weekly

Dark folds of cloth lit along their edges by a soft ember glow

migrationsAug 24, 2026

The incremental migration playbook: derisk, enable, finish

cultureAug 23, 2026

How to talk about debt with people who don't read code

The Economic Benefit of Refactoring

A 17,155-line file cost an agent 159,564 input tokens per change. Fifteen refactoring steps cut that by 83% — repair work priced per future change, not by feel.

strategyLinkAug 20, 2026martinfowler.com ↗

How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust Going?

Bun's Rust rewrite was sold as 11 days and $165k. Ten weeks on there is no release, 2,475 bot PRs are queued, and the merge backlog alone is 86 days. The accounting every rewrite claim owes you.

migrationsLinkAug 20, 2026lockwood.dev ↗