Yeah, one of the reasons I am hired is to un-fuck stuff that other people have spent a lot of time fucking up.
I don't love it but I am good at it. Or at least the places that hire me and pay me to do it seem to think so.
I know I posted this to even though I don't consider myself a dev. The article leans in that direction. Don't forget the people that have to run that garbage code or on what they do to make it work better either or figuring out what is broken before you do (sometimes) or yelling at you in a bug report.
I do have a personal hate for "Agile" though. Mostly because I have never seen it work properly in practice. I guess I have not worked at enough places yet then?
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From the post:
>Everybody hates working on legacy projects, myself included. As fate would have it, one landed in my lap recently. While working on it didn’t make me hate legacy projects any less, it did help me get a deeper understanding of the processes and practices we use today.
Yeah, one of the reasons I am hired is to un-fuck stuff that other people have spent a lot of time fucking up.
I don't love it but I am good at it. Or at least the places that hire me and pay me to do it seem to think so.
I know I posted this to /s/programming even though I don't consider myself a dev. The article leans in that direction. Don't forget the people that have to run that garbage code or on what they do to make it work better either or figuring out what is broken before you do (sometimes) or yelling at you in a bug report.
I do have a personal hate for "Agile" though. Mostly because I have never seen it work properly in practice. I guess I have not worked at enough places yet then?
Archive: https://archive.today/x0PjJ
From the post:
>>Everybody hates working on legacy projects, myself included. As fate would have it, one landed in my lap recently. While working on it didn’t make me hate legacy projects any less, it did help me get a deeper understanding of the processes and practices we use today.
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