Legacy Code

Empathy over Ego Code is read more than written. Be human. Five years ago, I wrote a data parser that still runs today. It handled edge cases nobody warned us about. Took flat files from a vendor who’d never heard of schemas. Normalized everything into tidy rows for the warehouse. At the time, I was proud of how concise it was. It had no third-party dependencies. It used clever recursion, tight loops, and a few expressions I knew would confuse anyone who hadn’t been knee-deep in it for months. ...