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Stamets2 @sh.itjust.works

5d ago

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Stamets2 @sh.itjust.works

5d ago

Seasoned Pros

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I love doing that…
- I might be in the minority, but I get more excited about the idea of maintaining/working on some creaky old legacy code base than I do about the idea of starting a new project from scratch.
  
  also, your own code after you've spent time away from it.
- I've gotten to spend some time where my major responsibility was to refactor and improve "research-grade" code from some scientists. Felt like tending a Zen rock garden, but code lol, I found it really relaxing and lovely.
- Same.
  It’s as close to being a doctor as I’m gonna get.
- I enjoy refactoring and making legacy code better.
- I dive into Fortran77 code regularly. Sweet mother of Neptune! All caps and such short variable names!
  
  Used to do that when I was working in science. I also kinda loved it. Just interesting to intimately experience how people thought back in the 80s. There are surprisingly many Fortran 77 libraries still in use today (they can be called from modern Fortran code).

I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar
- I am a loaf on the wand, what how I soak

I don't know if I can work with non legacy code anymore. That... Freedom, it's stifling.
- don't worry, it takes atmost three months for that fresh code to become legacy code bogged down by decisions done in anticipation of things that never happened :)

Stamets? "Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time."
- well, they gone
  
  😢

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