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# Throwback Thursday: June 27, 2025
- URL: https://nolongerset.com/throwback-thursday-2025-06-27/
- Published: 2025-06-27T03:59:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-08T12:46:07.000Z
- Description: 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.
- Author: Mike Wolfe
- Tags: Throwback Thursday, #Import 2026-05-20 02:59

*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.*

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## Highlights from NoLongerSet.com

[“I’m Not Touching That!”Hey, who wants to maintain this legacy code? Beuller? Beuller?![](https://nolongerset.com/content/images/size/w256h256/2020/09/NLS_Icon_square.png)No Longer SetMike Wolfe![](https://nolongerset.com/content/images/2023/08/man-272676_1920.jpg)](https://nolongerset.com/im-not-touching-that/)

[Code is WORM: Act AccordinglyWrite Once. Read Many. The cost of avoiding shortcuts when writing code is far exceeded by the benefits you’ll get when reading it.![](https://nolongerset.com/content/images/size/w256h256/2020/09/NLS_Icon_square.png)No Longer SetMike Wolfe![](https://nolongerset.com/content/images/2022/02/baby-5953965_1920.jpg)](https://nolongerset.com/code-is-worm/)

[When Good Comments Go BadBad actors carry out disinformation campaigns to poison our discourse. But when we write code, sometimes we’re the bad actors.![](https://nolongerset.com/content/images/size/w256h256/2020/09/NLS_Icon_square.png)No Longer SetMike Wolfe![](https://nolongerset.com/content/images/2020/11/gun-4127187_1920.jpg)](https://nolongerset.com/when-good-comments-go-bad/)

## Wisdom from Around the Web

[Karl’s Catalog: A Checklist of Access Best PracticesKarl Donaubauer’s checklist of Microsoft Access best practices offers a wealth of information to beginners and professional developers alike.![](https://nolongerset.com/content/images/size/w256h256/2020/09/NLS_Icon_square.png)No Longer SetMike Wolfe![](https://nolongerset.com/content/images/2022/11/Karl-s-Catalog.jpg)](https://nolongerset.com/karls-catalog/)

[The Noble Art of Maintenance ProgrammingMention 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.![](https://blog.codinghorror.com/content/images/size/w256h256/2020/06/3cffc4b347c3587f19fe222caaac69f63b9a5e73.png)Coding HorrorJeff Atwood![](https://blog.codinghorror.com/content/images/2025/06/image-316--1-.png)](https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-noble-art-of-maintenance-programming/)

## Developer Humor

> Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live.  
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> \- [Code For The Maintainer](https://wiki.c2.com/?CodeForTheMaintainer) 

> [justDontTouchIt](https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1llcjed/justdonttouchit/)  
> by [u/ThisTrainDontStopp](https://www.reddit.com/user/ThisTrainDontStopp/) in [ProgrammerHumor](https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/) 

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