You’ve inherited a 300k lines of spaghetti code. What do you do now?

Quit.

NGL this Mikado Method sounds pretty good 😉

There is no sure-fire technical solution. So you name and shame, far and wide, until it affects their bottom line.

Where’s

Using Solutions that Already Exist

No, seriously, you don’t have to build everything from scratch by yourself. Other people write code too.

Or 3. Hold shift, press ZZ to save and quit ZQ to quit without saving.

5. Writing and quitting

  					ZZ

ZZ Write current file, if modified, and close the current window (same as “:x”). If there are several windows for the current file, only the current window is closed.

  					ZQ

ZQ Quit without checking for changes (same as “:q!”).

Then you try to do anything else with that PC while it’s writing at 300 KBps and… buffer underrun. So many coasters.

Hogwash it was clearly the fault of name of most recent developer to resign and take a job at another company!

I love everything about this, but this bit I love just slightly more:

Updated 4/30/2025: I have received hundreds of e-Mails from my flyer. I told my grandson that flyers still work in this day and age. He said societal media is the only way, but I was right. And he is still very thin. Thank you all for the interest, I will be in touch. -Theo

Grandad showing his thin-ass grandson who’s still the boss.

Git experience is highly transferrable. Unless you have some specific use case not supported by Git, why wouldn’t you use the one where the knowledge is most likely to carry over between projects/jobs?

Congratulations on going above and beyond! As a sign of the company’s gratitude, here is another pile of shit with an even more unreasonable deadline! You got this, Mr. Rockstar!

Awesome! I guess I’m a nerd!

DwangoAC and the TASBot crew are maniacs in the best possible way. I would like to continue having a high opinion of him, hence I will pretend that this post does not exist.

“I see you XcQ” or “XcQ I see you”. It’s not the best mnemonic but it has served me well

Musky needs to hook up with NextGenHacker101 and get on that tracer-t tip!

I use an organized git repo full of curl shell scripts 🤷

The inhouse tooling from the massive tech companies is very cool but I always wonder how that impacts transferrable skills. I work in a much smaller shop but intentionally make tech decisions that will give our engineers a highly transferrable skill set. If someone wants to leave it should be easy to bring their knowledge to bear elsewhere.