Strangling Procedural Legacy PHP into Laravel
The big bang rewrite is the most confident decision an engineering team can make and one of the worst. The pitch is always reasonable. The current s…
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I audited marshmallow's docs: 184 missing docstrings, 65 stale. Here's the tool I built to fix that
Most teams have one repo nobody wants to touch. It works, it matters, and the people who understood it have moved on. Half the functions have no doc…
Characterization Tests First, Then the Smallest Safe Change
Characterization Tests First, Then the Smallest Safe Change Stop refactoring. Start recording. The smallest safe change wins only if you can prove n…
Java 5 Legacy Patterns and Migration Strategies (2026-08-21 14:32)
Java 5 Legacy Patterns and Migration Strategies Released in 2004, Java 5 (also known as Java 1.5) introduced language features that fundamentally ch…
I Inherited 60,000 Lines of Undocumented C++. I Read It With an AI and Assumed Every Answer Was a Lie.
Three months ago a colleague left, and I inherited his project: roughly 60,000 lines of C++17, no design docs, comments that mostly said // TODO: cl…
AWS Transform Alternatives in 2026: Code Modernization Platforms Compared
Last updated: July 2026 By Axel Misson. The main AWS Transform alternatives in 2026 are Modelcode (Morph), Moderne, IBM Bob, vFunction, and Amazon Q…
Repository Intelligence in 2026: Why AI That Reads Your Git History Beats AI That Reads Your Files
Ask any AI coding assistant from two years ago, "Why does this function exist?" and you'd get a paraphrase of the code itself — a description of wha…