@norootcause too real

@norootcause "I'm a developer, and you can always trust a developer to be productively dishonest."

@norootcause Worse Is Better

@norootcause I identify with this meme and am going to forward it to an also-retired former programmer colleague. My 'manager purchase invoice approval interface' program - 8000 lines of mostly comments to explain to future programmers what I was doing with the APIs. I 'peaked' at age 62.

@norootcause tfw you implement a bodge so unrepentantly, hideously bad that, as you press enter on the command to run it, you hear a faint crackling sound and smell a whiff of sulphur

@norootcause dear god, I"m Jack Sparrow...

@norootcause two 'sayings' on this topic: "There are two kinds of code: legacy code and code that nobody uses." and "As soon as code reaches production, it becomes legacy code."