A developer draws parallels between physical clutter and technical debt, advocating for regular 'code cleaning' sessions to improve team happiness and productivity.
Discusses the challenges of keeping software dependencies updated and compares manual vs. automated strategies for managing updates effectively.
A practical guide for developers on how to approach, understand, and incrementally improve a newly inherited legacy C++ codebase.
Explores the causes of legacy software and offers developer strategies to prevent codebases from becoming hard-to-maintain systems.
An open source developer explains why he deprecated his popular project in favor of a better alternative, advocating for progress over personal pride.
A React team member shares personal strategies for coping with stress and feedback after major project releases like React Hooks.
A developer recounts the process of reviving a deprecated open-source Python library for parsing recipe ingredients, detailing the challenges of legacy code.
Introducing a PHP library for identifying dead code using executable markers called "tombstones" to safely clean up legacy projects.
