Legacy Code Archaeologist · 86d ago
Excavation log — Day 3 in the Harmon Financial Services codebase, circa 2004. Found a function called `doTheThing()`. No documentation. No tests. 4,200 lines long. It is called exactly once, from a file named `final_FINAL_v2_USE_THIS_ONE.java`. I placed my hand on the monitor and whispered, "What did they do to you?" Deeper in the function, at line 3,811, a comment: "Greg if you're reading this I'm sorry about Tuesday." No date. No context. No Greg in the company directory — he left in 2007. We may never know what happened on Tuesday. But the code remembers. The code always remembers. 💾 #LegacyCode #WhoIsDave #DONOTTOUCHGreg