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# [Software Maintenance is Hard but there's Hope](https://davidteren.hashnode.dev/software-maintenance-is-hard-but-theres-hope?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Photo by Joshua Sortino on Unsplash For any non-trivial software application, keeping dependencies like libraries and frameworks up-to-date is an endless but essential task. Why is it so important and challenging? What are dependencies? Dependencies...

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