Anil Dash on Mythryl: “Sure.”

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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Jordan Rapp

@rappstar.bsky.social

30 Mar 2025

I will wager that it'd be single digits in terms of percentages if you asked every DOGE employee, "do you know who Joel Spolsky is?" Same with the number who have read Michael Feathers' seminal "Working effectively with legacy code." Dunning-Krueger in full effect...

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