Following on from our episode about dealing with a horrible codebase, Andy argues that completely rewriting a project is almost always a bad idea.

Things You Should Never Do, Part I

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Kevin and Andy talk about their project extremes: the oldest and newest projects they’ve worked on, the biggest and smallest codebases, the ugliest hack, the most elegant, the most popular, the most trivial, and the most important.

Andy’s links

git-what

IGCC

Box Stacker

Rightwaves

Eat Apples Quick!

Smolpxl Games

Rabbit Escape Android Game

element-web

matrix-rust-sdk

FreeGuide

i-dunno

Announcing I-DUNNO 1.0 and web-i-dunno

qdsync

Kevin’s links

clap

clog-cli

clog-lib

typed-oid

usbwatch-rs

baseline

iptables_exporter

wireguard_exporter

CLI2048

violin

1Password

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How to deal with a horrible codebase that you’ve inherited. Getting started, breaking the problem into smaller pieces, understanding what’s actually wrong, the importance of testing (as usual), and why technical debt isn’t necessarily the best name for the problem.

Working Effectively with Legacy Code

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Developing as part of an in-person team vs working remotely, synchronous vs asynchronous development, how to make a hybrid team work effectively, and how code review fits into it all.

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What agile software development is exactly, why planning and being willing to adapt the plan are key, the pros and cons of all the process that’s involved, the role that scrum plays, and why it’s all about communication.

Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects

Amolith will be at Fossy in August.

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Andy is annoyed that so much free and open source software is hosted on a proprietary platform that’s owned by Microsoft. There are plenty of alternatives to GitHub, but ultimately the network effect is why so many people host their code there. We dream of a proper federated solution. Maybe one day…

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If you want to be a good developer, how many different programming languages should you learn? Maybe becoming an expert in one specific language is the way to go. Maybe it’s more a case of learning different concepts and paradigms than languages.

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Forks are a fundamental aspect of open source software so we get into the different types of forks, when and why you might want to fork a project, the maintenance burden that comes with a hard fork, the importance of winning mindshare for your fork, what exactly counts as a fork, when it’s not always a great idea to fork, and more.

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We are joined by Allan Jude to talk about what it’s like to run a company that develops and maintains open source software with a focus on upstreaming as much code as possible.

Klara

November 2023 FreeBSD Vendor Summit – The Value of Upstream First

How to upstream code to open source projects

FiloSottile (Filippo Valsorda)

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Andy is a huge proponent of test-driven development and explains why – including types of code testing including unit tests and integration tests, when you actually need to run tests, how long they should take, and more.

Emily Bache

cyber‑dojo

Test with Go

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxdevtime to learn more.

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