[hinkley]

I was responsible for a shared library amongst a bunch of teams that didn’t like each other and one greedy global contractor. The latter in particular wanted more money any time the interface changed (even when there was evidence they hadn’t consumed it yet)

What I was handed was slow as molasses and insecure by design (no surprise since I arrived at late POC stage). I spent a considerable fraction of my cleverness on that project to upend the semantics and internal logic of that module with only a handful of changes to the syntax. And most of that came down to massaging the contract and a couple method signatures.

Outlawyering that team is still one of my proudest moments, but I’ve lost less sleep after I left over that code than just about anything I’ve done.