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by duxup 53 days ago
Amen, right now I’m rewriting some code and parts of an application after running for years. So I have all the advantages of knowing the bugs and history.

There is zero chance anyone who wrote this the first time would do what I’m doing.

Some things I’m simplifying because it never becomes a spot that the previous devs thought would be a big pivot point for customization and heavy use….