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Anil Dash
@anildash.com

For people outside the industry, it may not be common knowledge, but one of the most famous bits of technical writing of all time, was Joel Spolsky saying that you should *never* rewrite an entire code base — 25 years ago. www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/t...

joelonsoftware.comThings You Should Never Do, Part INetscape 6.0 is finally going into its first public beta. There never was a version 5.0. The last major release, version 4.0, was released almost three years ago. Three years is an awfully long tim…
Clive Thompson@clivethompson.bsky.social

So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base! and they want to do it ... ... in *a few months* I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ... ... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here 1/9

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Anil Dash
@anildash.com

I thought about that, and… yes? Because the same mindset of internal focus is probably the cause of many of the problems since then.

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Kevin Marks
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Maybe the real lesson was the subsequent work on HTML5 that defined what exactly what browsers should do in such detail that further compatible ones could be written.