A subredit dedicated to legacy code
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A subredit dedicated to legacy code
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Re: A subredit dedicated to legacy code
#2A subreddit dedicated to discussing and making it easier to work with legacy code.
There's a lot of projects out there that need to be kept alive. The objective is to make them fun to develop again.
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#3https://github.com/historicalsource?tab=repositories
This GitHub account is the mother load for old dos game sources...
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#4https://github.com/historicalsource?tab=repositories This GitHub account is the mother load for old dos game sources...
Re-posted :D
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#5Personally I love untangling old PHP/Ruby systems and striking that balance between paying down technical debt, squashing bugs, and getting new features to users.
I prefer the unique challenges of hundreds of thousands or millions of lines of code and a user base getting real work done with a system to the repetitive tasks of greenfield development ("oh joy, time to implement password reset again!").
PS If anyone is sitting on this type of challenge I've got my email in my profile, I am looking for some freelancing hours.
Re: A subredit dedicated to legacy code
#6Personally I love untangling old PHP/Ruby systems and striking that balance between paying down technical debt, squashing bugs, and getting new features to users. I prefer the unique challenges of hundreds of thousands or millions of lines of code and a user base getting real work done with a system to the repetitive tasks of greenfield development ("oh joy, time to implement password reset again!"). PS If anyone is…
My experience is actually creating projects from scratch and outsource everything to 3rd parties (like using Firebase for everything). But lately I've seen that there are too many organizations (specially government and non-profits) that desperately need some improvement in their technology. And they need it more than a startup that is already in the bleeding edge.
I hope in the future people feel free to post job postings or freelance projects in this subreddit.
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#7Legacy code is the future.
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#8Legacy code is the future.
We're going to have so much fun migrating Wordpress websites while everybody is already on Solid React Angular that still forces you to implement all loading / error / done states per request.
Re: A subredit dedicated to legacy code
#9Personally I love untangling old PHP/Ruby systems and striking that balance between paying down technical debt, squashing bugs, and getting new features to users. I prefer the unique challenges of hundreds of thousands or millions of lines of code and a user base getting real work done with a system to the repetitive tasks of greenfield development ("oh joy, time to implement password reset again!"). PS If anyone is…
I feel much the same way. I love that feeling of deep familiarity you only get with a codebase that has some years behind it and you sharing multiple of those years with it. You get things like when a bug report comes in, and just from the description you can immediately realize some niche interaction that they've stumbled upon.
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#10Michael Feathers working with legacy code book has been an absolute tome for working with old code. So many good ideas on how to tame code and find bugs and slowly improve the quality of it and its testability.