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Practical Session: Learning from mistakes in a legacy codebase

This is part two of a double-stream we did with Adrian on Our Tech Journey. Inspired by our friday coding session, we noticed resistance bubble up between us as we looked at the state of this project.

We coded mostly and discussed things like:

  • 🔧 Adding tests can help in reverse engineering and understanding the system

  • 🥜 Pairing is a great method for knowledge sharing and exploration

  • ⛳️ Simplify and refactor concepts in a legacy codebase to enable adding features

  • 📦 Abstractions are hard to convey without tests or boundary definitions

  • 🧠 Resistance to change, how the urge to continue #shortterminism can ruin DX

🎙 Watch “Learning from mistakes, part two“

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