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I have this bad codebase at work. Really bad. One of the things I’ve been working on for the past two years is making it consistent. I’m almost at the point where interfaces can be left alone and internals rewrites in a consistent style.

People often ask why I hardly ever have any prod issues (zero so far this year). This is part of the reason. Having consistent codebases that are written in a specific style and implement things in similar manner.

Some codebases make me feel like I’m reading a book in multiple languages …



> People often ask why I hardly ever have any prod issues (zero so far this year).

It also helps that we're still only in January!


Bahh thanks for the chuckle. The man is 7/7 as of today!


> zero so far this year

I saw what you did there.


Maybe that’s not even that bad if number of issues went down from multiple a day to none in a couple of days.


> Some codebases make me feel like I’m reading a book in multiple languages …

In most cases the codebase does consist of muliple languges.




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