The 2024 #CyberShare Summit is underway in Louisville, Ky. Yesterday kicked off with workshops & a visit to @SluggerMuseum. This morning, participants heard from @bellmar, software engineering expert & author, & participated in a friendly maker space competition.

At big companies you often run into old terrible code that’s still not been fixed and curse the person that wrote them years ago. I’ve done it plenty, I can’t help it. I was once the first engineer at a startup and was there for 14 years. So I’ve been in meetings where a developer was cursing whoever wrote some piece of crap 10yr old code, and it was often…me. Why didn’t you use the factory pattern, why didn’t you document store this instead of using mysql, etc. So sometimes I try extra hard to remember that smart well-intentioned people made the best decisions they could using the information they had at the time. The tradeoffs they made aren't always immediately obvious a decade later. But the fact that the project is still running 10 years later is a testament to…something. Also- this is why you/we were hired; to fix the shit code instead of just complaining about it.

I’m really interested in a job that involves caring for a ten year old application nobody else wants to touch, because I’m insane 😩