33 years after Ward Cunningham coined “#TechnicalDebt,” the metaphor is collapsing. Pablo Bouzada asks: What if the real risk isn’t debt, but fragility? This piece reshapes the way you talk about code, cost, & credibility.
Take the red pill: https://javapro.io/2025/06/18/should-we-stop-discussing-about-technical-debt-with-top-management/
Aaron Grothe, CISSP presents 'What About C/C++' July 24th at Nebraska.Code().
https://nebraskacode.amegala.com/
#CSharp #TechnicalDebt #LegacyCode #CDialects #Cyclone #Trapc #TechConference #Nebraska #SoftwareCraftsmanship #lincolnnebraska #softwaredevelopment #DeveloperConference #developercommunity #ProgrammingConference #Networking
A classroom of open-minded people, eagerly learning and practicing "Refactoring Legacy Code Guided By Approval Tests" at @amsterdam 2025. Thanks to all participants for joining and sharing your unique perspectives. Also a big thank you for all the great feedback.
#refactoring #legacycode #tdd #approvaltests #softwaredesign
The final thing that made me not want to write tests was #LegacyCode that had no tests and thus wasn't written to easily support writing unit tests. A lot of the times it was like the code was written purposely to make writing unit tests as hard as possible.
Your code is 20 years old—and still running? Great. But what about security, #Performance, and tech debt? Merlin Bögershausen reveals a smarter path with #OpenRewrite & #MigrationEngineering: recipes, automation & test coverage.
Dive in: 👉 https://javapro.io/2025/05/13/jump-20-years-of-java-with-migration-engineering/
#LegacyCode @OpenRewrite
Typical developer conversation:
"This legacy code is hard to maintain. Let's just rewrite it from scratch."
Meanwhile, the old project: ...😮
#comics #developers #codinglife #softwareengineering #programmerhumor #techlife #legacycode #devmemes #cleanarchitecture #refactoring
"Teaching old code new tricks: Morgan Stanley's AI has become the world's most efficient programming linguist, translating 9 million lines of ancient computer-speak into modern English! 🔄
That's like having a universal translator for every programming language since COBOL was cool 😎
🎯 Ai învățat un framework nou?
🔧 React. Vue. Svelte. Laravel 11. Symfony 7. Fresh și lucios?
🔙 Super.
Acum pune mâna și învață ăla vechi...
👉 Cel care încă rulează în producție.
📦 Ăla fără Docker, fără CI/CD, fără test coverage.
📅 Scris acum 6 ani. De cineva care nu mai lucrează acolo.
Și merge. De frică.
💬 „În IT nu e despre ce vrei TU să folosești. E despre ce moștenești.”
#SergiuDinIT
🔁 Distribuie dacă ai avut și tu „surprize” în producție.
#ITreal #LegacyCode #DevLife
They said it couldn't be tested... But they were wrong. Sort of.
Read more here:
https://www.devleader.ca/2023/12/20/dealing-with-legacy-code-how-to-make-anything-more-testable/
#LegacyCode schläft nicht. Er wird zum Risiko! Sicherheitslücken, schwache #Performance? Merlin Bögershausen bringt frischen Wind: Mit #MigrationEngineering & #OpenRewrite wird dein Java-Projekt zukunftssicher.
Bereit? Entdecke, was möglich ist: https://javapro.io/de/ueberwinde-20-jahre-mit-migration-engineering/
🧼 Got legacy code? Refactor it safely with Approval Tests!
Join Jan Van Ryswyck’s hands-on workshop at #DevOpsDaysAMS.
Multi-language support & real-world practice.
🎟️ https://tickets.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-amsterdam/2025/
#LegacyCode #Refactoring #speakers
How to Confidently Update Legacy Code in Symfony > https://medium.com/ekino-france/how-to-confidently-update-legacy-code-in-symfony-031de745933a #php #symfony #legacycode
I really liked watching this talk: "Code Mending in the AI age - Ray Myers | Craft Conference 2024"
🔍🤔 Oh, so #developers are basically glorified detectives, spending all their time playing Sherlock with legacy code and buggy systems! 🙄 Who knew that a book from 1979 could enlighten us with the groundbreaking revelation that #maintenance is time-consuming? 📚💡 Next, they'll tell us the sky is blue.
https://lepiter.io/feenk/developers-spend-most-of-their-time-figuri-7aj1ocjhe765vvlln8qqbuhto/ #legacycode #softwaredevelopment #humor #HackerNews #ngated
Proiectul nu are arhitectură. Are istorie.
Fiecare commit e un artefact.
Fiecare bug – o relicvă.
Do you think legacy software belongs in a museum? @MBoegie shows how 20-year-old code gets a second life—smarter & faster. Learn about recipes, concurrency & tooling (#Maven #Gradle) with #OpenRewrite: 👉 https://javapro.io/2025/05/13/jump-20-years-of-java-with-migration-engineering/
#LegacyCode @OpenRewrite #MigrationEngineering
Think migrating Java apps is just grunt work? Think again. Merlin Bögershausen turns #MigrationEngineering into a strategic superpower—recipes, automation & test safety (#JUnit/#Spring Boot) included.
Ready to modernize? 👉 https://javapro.io/2025/05/13/jump-20-years-of-java-with-migration-engineering/
Touching code you haven't modified in 10 years feels.. sad.
Feels like lurking in a graveyard. It's lilke being in one of those dreams when you revive something that happened ages ago, it's full of monsters, I guess that's why we always feel the impulse of a complete rewrite, because all your shame flourishes in a moment.
And you cannot but recognize how small you are.
Verheddert im Dschungel der #Java-Standards? Auf der #JCON2025 spricht Merlin Bögershausen darüber, wie du mit #MigrationEngineering & #OpenRewrite dein Projekt neu ausrichtest.
Hol dir vor der Session schon Input aus seinem #JAVAPRO Artikel: https://javapro.io/de/ueberwinde-20-jahre-mit-migration-engineering/
Oh, look! 🤖✨ AI code is apparently "legacy" the moment it's born. Because, obviously, code that doesn't need maintenance or updates is just SO passé. 🤷♂️ Let's all just pretend we've cracked the code of eternal perfection! 😂🔥
https://text-incubation.com/AI+code+is+legacy+code+from+day+one #AIcode #LegacyCode #TechHumor #SoftwareDevelopment #EternalPerfection #HackerNews #ngated
