Throwback Thursday: June 27, 2025
Today's edition of Throwback Thursday is an homage to the fine art of software maintenance...and how we can make this thankless chore easier on our future selves.
With over a million words scattered across more than 1,500 articles on this blog, you've probably missed a few things here.
That’s why each week in "Throwback Thursday," we’ll revisit some standout posts. Expect a blend of my personal favorites, insightful articles from other great minds, and a touch of coding humor to keep things light.
Highlights from NoLongerSet.com
“I’m Not Touching That!”
Hey, who wants to maintain this legacy code? Beuller? Beuller?
Mike Wolfe
Code is WORM: Act Accordingly
Write Once. Read Many. The cost of avoiding shortcuts when writing code is far exceeded by the benefits you’ll get when reading it.
Mike Wolfe
When Good Comments Go Bad
Bad actors carry out disinformation campaigns to poison our discourse. But when we write code, sometimes we’re the bad actors.
Mike Wolfe
Wisdom from Around the Web
Karl’s Catalog: A Checklist of Access Best Practices
Karl Donaubauer’s checklist of Microsoft Access best practices offers a wealth of information to beginners and professional developers alike.
Mike Wolfe
The Noble Art of Maintenance Programming
Mention the words “maintenance programming” to a group of developers and they’ll, to a man (or woman), recoil in horror. Maintenance programming is widely viewed as janitorial work. But maybe that’s an unfair characterization. In Software Conflict 2.0: The Art and Science of Software Engineering, Robert L.
Jeff Atwood
Developer Humor
Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
- Code For The Maintainer
justDontTouchIt
by u/ThisTrainDontStopp in ProgrammerHumor
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