https://oypron.com/categories/general/Recent content in General on Tech Notes - A Developer's JournalHugoen-usFri, 15 Aug 2025 10:30:00 +0000https://oypron.com/posts/hello-world/Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:30:00 +0000https://oypron.com/posts/hello-world/<p>After almost a decade of writing code professionally, I have built up a fairly large pile of half-finished notes, throwaway gists, and Slack messages to my future self. Most of them never see daylight again. This blog is an attempt to fix that.</p> <h2 id="why-now">Why now</h2> <p>Earlier this year I rebuilt a service that had been quietly accumulating tech debt for three years. By the time I was done I had read through thousands of lines of code I had written years ago and barely recognized any of it. There were comments like <code>// TODO: figure this out later</code> next to a perfectly reasonable explanation that I clearly knew at the time but no longer remembered. I wished, more than once, that I had written things down somewhere I would actually be able to find them.</p>