"The forty-year-old COBOL system running bank transactions has survived countless technological upheavals, it has survived the internet, and it has survived DOGE. It works. The sexy new microservices architecture might work, or it might introduce seventeen novel failure modes that nobody anticipated because nobody had encountered them before.
"But maintainers of legacy systems are treated as janitors rather than guardians."
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-rime-of-the-ancient-maintainer/
We called it "support", but okay.
https://mastodon.social/@planetaryecologist/115543979074318056
planetaryecologist@mastodon.social - Software evolution (Evolution 🧬)
Software evolution is the continual development of a piece of software after its initial release to address changing stakeholder and/or market requirements. ... organizations invest large amounts of money in their software and are completely dependent on this software.
Software evolution (Evolution 🧬)
Software evolution is the continual development of a piece of software after its initial release to address changing stakeholder and/or market requirements. Software evolution is important because organizations invest large amounts of money in their software and are completely dependent on this software. Software evolution helps software adapt to changing bus...
The latest episode was sparked after a Google AI agent found an especially obscure bug in FFmpeg. How obscure? This “medium impact issue in ffmpeg,” which the FFmpeg developers did patch, is “an issue with decoding LucasArts Smush codec, specifically the first 10-20 frames of Rebel Assault 2, a game from 1995.”
https://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-google-fund-us-or-stop-sending-bugs/
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🧹 Tidying Up After Myself: Automatically Deleting Old GitHub Issues
At some point, I had to admit it: I’ve turned GitHub Issues into a glorified chart gallery. Let me explain. Over on my amedee/ansible-servers repository, I have a workflow called workflow-metrics.yml, which runs after every pipeline. It uses yykamei/github-workflows-metrics to generate beautiful charts that show how long my CI pipeline takes to run. Those charts are then posted into a GitHub Issue—one per run. It’s neat. It's visual. It's entirely unnecessary to keep them […]https://amedee.be/%f0%9f%a7%b9-tidying-up-after-myself-automatically-deleting-old-github-issues/
🎸🤖 Taylor Otwell gives us a masterclass in stating the obvious: maintaining software is important! After 14 years of #Laravel, he's finally cracked the code on why not to mix spaghetti with your codebase. 🍝💻
https://maintainable.fm/episodes/taylor-otwell-what-14-years-of-laravel-taught-me-about-maintainability #TaylorOtwell #SoftwareMaintenance #CodeQuality #SpaghettiCode #HackerNews #ngated
🔒🚨 Breaking news! In a shocking twist, maintaining software turns out to be important! Who knew? 🐛 #FreeBSD users, dust off your resumes, because it looks like libxslt's job opening for a maintainer just got urgent. 😅🔥
https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/b0a3466f-5efc-11f0-ae84-99047d0a6bcc.html #BreakingNews #SoftwareMaintenance #libxslt #JobOpening #HackerNews #ngated
🇪🇺 #GitHub is calling for a new #EU #techfund (€350M) to support #critical #opensource #softwaremaintenance, highlighting its economic importance and the need for #sustainablefunding.
😏 While acknowledging the need for #publicfunding, there is concern about big #techcompanies offloading their #responsibilities and the potential for the fund to become a subsidy for them.
👉 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/github-eu-open-source-funding?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News
In Oman's fast-growing industries, custom software development isn't a luxury, it's an absolute crucial requirement. From precise Software Design and solid Software Architecture, to rigorous Software Testing, smooth Software Deployment, and proactive Software Maintenance, each step plays an important part in providing powerful industrial solutions.
#softwaredevelopment
#softwaredesign
#softwarearchitecture
#softwaretesting
#softwaredeployment
#softwaremaintenance
https://www.expediteiot.com/software-development-in-Kuwait-qatar-and-oman/
Thought of the day: having lots of open issues in your project isn't a problem. "Stale issue" bots are doing way more harm than unanswered issues.
#SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareQuality #SoftwareMaintenance #IssueTracking #AnnoyingBots
1/5 Heya Fed, Hint of the day for the devs out there: I was heavily reliant on Dependabot to keep my project's software dependencies versions up to date (you are keeping your dependencies up to date, right?).
Some colleagues who are deeper into OSS told me to try Renovate, but I mostly dismissed it as just alt tech.
#devops #renovatebot #oss #dependabot #automation #softwaremaintenance #ci #monorepo #buildtools #developerexperience #selfhosted
1/5 Heya Fed, Hint of the day for the devs out there: I was heavily reliant on Dependabot to keep my project's software versions up to date (you are keeping your dependencies up to date, right?).
Some colleagues who are deeper into OSS told me to try Renovate, but I mostly dismissed it as just alt tech.
#devops #renovatebot #oss #dependabot #automation #softwaremaintenance #ci #monorepo #buildtools #developerexperience #selfhosted
⏰ Only 12 hours left to submit your abstract to the ICSME 2025 Industry Track!
This track encourages sharing practical insights, challenges, and innovations in software maintenance and evolution.
We welcome both short (5 pages) and long (10 pages) papers sharing practical innovations, lessons learned, and field-tested experiences.
👉 Submit now: https://conf.researchr.org/track/icsme-2025/icsme-2025-industry-track
#ICSME2025 #IndustryTrack #SoftwareEngineering #CFP #SoftwareMaintenance #TechInnovation
Every “temporary” fix becomes permanent if you don’t revisit it.
Quick hacks feel harmless — in the moment.
But they pile up, fast.
✅ Leave clear TODOs and comments
✅ Track tech debt like real debt
✅ Schedule time to clean up
✅ Fix things before they grow roots
Code ages. Maintain it with intention.
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#JCON #jcon2025 inspirations from yesterday
#6 - The !joy of Maintaining Dead Code by
@hansolo_ @mastodon.green:
Dead and Zombie code cost a lot of money, but are hard to find and complex to remove.
There a several different approaches (e.g. CodeReview, Java Code Coverage [JaCoCo]), but still manual effort is required.
Removing code often needs domain knowledge.
⏰ Deadline Extended! You now have 1 more week to submit your abstract to the ICSME 2025 Industry Track!
We welcome both short (5 pages) and long (10 pages) papers that share practical insights, innovations, and lessons learned from real-world experiences in software maintenance and evolution.
Whether it's a success story, a hard-earned lesson, or a novel approach in practice—we want to hear from you!
👉https://conf.researchr.org/track/icsme-2025/icsme-2025-industry-track
#ICSME2025 #IndustryTrack #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareMaintenance
⏰ Only 1 day left to submit your abstract to the ICSME 2025 Industry Track!
We welcome both short (5 pages) and long (10 pages) papers sharing practical insights, innovations, and lessons learned from the field.
👉 Submission details: https://conf.researchr.org/track/icsme-2025/icsme-2025-industry-track
#ICSME2025 #IndustryTrack #SoftwareEngineering #CFP #SoftwareMaintenance
⏳ Only 10 days left to submit your abstract to the ICSME 2025 Industry Track!
Whether you're a practitioner or researcher, we want to hear you.
We're accepting both short and full papers—share your challenges, solutions, and innovations from the field!
📅 Don’t miss the chance to connect with the global software engineering community.
🔗 Details & submission: https://conf.researchr.org/track/icsme-2025/icsme-2025-industry-track
#ICSME2025 #CallForPapers #SoftwareEngineering #TechIndustry #SoftwareMaintenance
Is no one updating fitbit software?
