Technical debt and tacking into the wind (2013)

[Tomte]

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/technical-debt-and-tacking-into-the-wind

[pbalau]

Random note, but the only way to tack is into the wind. Not sure how this expression came to be, but if the nose of your boat goes into the wind, this is a tack. If your boat's ass goes into the wind, this is a gybe.

[smegsicle → pbalau]

and if you were pointing one way, and now you're pointing the other way, that's a shunt