In the spirit of responsible blogging, I would like to correct a few mistakes I made in some recent posts.
I don’t like calling code bases legacy. The word “legacy” makes people think of Ivy League schools, vintage leather couches, and Dad’s old bottle of Scotch. It rarely elicits the kind of feeling of pain and despair one normally gets when dealing with old code. So instead, I prefer to call crusty old code Hostile. Dealing with […]
There are many qualities that make a good engineer. This post is not about those. Instead, it’s about qualities that make me cringe and run away.