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@gregfromstl
We normally run away from or poke fun at legacy code and how awful it can be to work with, but I think there's a very real, valuable, and rare skill to taking a shitty legacy codebase and turning it into something great. That's at least what I tell myself
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this just came across my feed and seems adjacent. some old code could just be left alone to run 🚂 “Celebrated are the minimal dependencies, the humble function that just quietly does the job, the code that doesn't need to be touched for years because it was done right once. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/1/24/build-it-yourself/
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True. Pretty rare though, most code is just bad because building software is a very difficult thing to do.
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