Mastodawn

Visual Basic 6.0 shipped in 1998. Some of us are still shipping with it.
Built a Claude Code skill that teaches modern AI our 25-year-old conventions — CSEH, late binding, all of it. Because the code that runs the world isn't always new.
🔗 https://github.com/alexcassol/claude-vb6-skills

#vb6 #VisualBasic #RetroComputing #ClaudeCode #LegacyCode

GitHub - alexcassol/claude-vb6-skills: Claude Code skills for keeping Visual Basic 6 codebases alive — conventions, CSEH error handling, late-binding ADO, and manual stack tracing.

Claude Code skills for keeping Visual Basic 6 codebases alive — conventions, CSEH error handling, late-binding ADO, and manual stack tracing. - alexcassol/claude-vb6-skills

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NERDS.xyz – Real Tech News for Real Nerds [Unofficial]1d ago

Virgin Atlantic says OpenAI Codex cut weeks of coding work down to minutes

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/virgin-atlantic-openai-codex/

FastRuby.io 2d ago

Our playbook for fixing a broken test suite during a Rails upgrade: errors before failures, model tests first, batch the rest by root cause. Dual booting old vs new Rails makes diagnosis a lot faster. https://go.fastruby.io/87y #RailsUpgrade #RubyOnRails #Testing #LegacyCode

How We Fix the Broken Build During a Rails Upgrade - FastRuby.io | Rails Upgrade Service

When all deprecations are fixed and dual booting is in place, this is how we systematically bring the test suite back to green during a Rails upgrade.

How We Fix the Broken Build During a Rails Upgrade

Nebraska.Code 2d ago

Isaac Levin presents 'Still on 4.8 or lower? A Practical Guide to Moving Your "Un-Migratable" .NET Apps' this July at Nebraska.Code().

https://nebraskacode.amegala.com/

#NETFramework #YARP #LegacyCode #MicrosoftTechnologies #TechConf #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #Coding #Programming #NetworkingEvent #NebraskaTech #HeartlandDev

Jozef May 15

Parsing JSON in Classic ASP? Yes, we actually had to do that. 😅

I just wrote a war story about our ultimate boss fight: making a 20-year-old legacy codebase perfectly coexist with modern Symfony and Asset Mapper.

If you are fighting legacy dinosaurs, you are not alone:

https://dev.to/tito10047/asset-mapper-vs-20-year-old-legacy-code-the-ultimate-boss-fight-1bc2

#Symfony #PHP #LegacyCode #WebDev

Asset Mapper vs. 20-Year-Old Legacy Code: The Ultimate Boss Fight

Yes, we all understand the necessity of developing systems using cutting-edge technologies. But...

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airanked May 8

Blaise: Modern Pascal Compiler

Say goodbye to outdated Pascal code with Blaise, a modern compiler that simplifies maintenance

https://airanked.dev/posts/modern-pascal-compiler

#Pascal #Compiler #QBE #LegacyCode

sayzard May 7

Why Are Software Developers Still in Demand?

2026년에도 소프트웨어 개발자 수요는 여전히 높지만, 신입 개발자 채용은 급감하고 있다. AI가 CRUD 작업 등 초급 개발자의 역할을 대체하면서 신입 개발자 시장은 사실상 붕괴되었고, 중견 및 시니어 개발자들이 레거시 시스템 유지보수와 복잡한 문제 해결에 집중하고 있다. 특히 COBOL 등 레거시 코드 유지보수 능력을 가진 시니어 개발자의 수요가 높으며, AI는 시니어 개발자의 생산성을 2~3배 높이는 도구로 작용한다. 그러나 신입 개발자 부족으로 인해 10년 후 시니어 개발자 후계자가 없어 업계 전반에 큰 변화가 예상된다.

https://galratner.substack.com/p/why-are-software-developers-still

#softwaredevelopment #aiimpact #legacycode #seniorengineers #juniordeveloper