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Technical debt and vibe-coding

Sep 9, 2025

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When looking at a system as-it-is, my perspective remains: tech debt is the state of a system that captured the understanding of the problem when it was created and doesn’t fully reflect today’s understanding. The (obsolete) understanding applies to both functional and non-functional requirements, so it might be about the business, technical, scaling, or another…

First online article on technical debt

Aug 20, 2025

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Bojan Bjelić

in Encounter

Ward Cunningham introduced the metaphor underlying the term technical debt in a 1992 experience report, where he described how his company incrementally extended a piece of financial software: Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rewrite. Objects make…

Encounter: Cursorless is alien magic from the future – Xe Iaso

Nov 10, 2023

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Bojan Bjelić

in Encounter

Is the future of code input voice? Just imagine if you started this way… Source: Cursorless is alien magic from the future – Xe Iaso

Jailer is a tool for database subsetting and relational data browsing

Jul 15, 2021

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Bojan Bjelić

in Coding, Encounter

ribosome (A simple generic code generation tool)

Jun 21, 2021

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Bojan Bjelić

in Encounter

A simple generic code generation tool Source: ribosome

git – duplicate a repo without forking

Apr 16, 2020

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Bojan Bjelić

in Coding

Convert XML to JSON using XSLT

Aug 1, 2012

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Bojan Bjelić

in Coding, Tutorials

With increasing service reuse came the need for portable data formats, XML was one of the first widely used, but lately JSON is in bloom. I needed to convert XML into JSON format for easier consumption on the client, so here’s an article describing the way to do it using XSLT with code and examples.