Batch .bat in 2026: Legacy Glue, Not a Personality
I still write .bat files in 2026. I also refuse to build an identity around them. That distinction— legacy glue vs personality —is the retrospective…
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I still write .bat files in 2026. I also refuse to build an identity around them. That distinction— legacy glue vs personality —is the retrospective…
Почти в каждой компании есть устаревшие системы (те самые legacy), которые по различным причинам необходимо поддерживать. Например для соответствия…
Uniface is one of those tools you rarely read about, but that still runs a surprising amount of business software. I work with it regularly, and I w…
I maintain an ERP that runs a footwear factory. It is a Delphi VCL desktop application: 488 units, roughly 160,000 lines of Object Pascal, sitting o…
The biggest refactor failures come from big steps. A 200-line function turns into a rewrite. The rewrite ships with a regression. The fix is to make…
Refactoring at enterprise scale is a different discipline from refactoring in an IDE. Renaming a method across one service is a right-click; retirin…
Lately I keep getting asked about legacy replacements. It's become one of the more common conversations I have, and the framing is almost always the…
Новый сервис в пустом репозитории легко назвать greenfield. А если он должен заменить часть работающей системы, перенести данные за десять лет, сохр…
Every bank, insurer, and government system running on a mainframe today is sitting on COBOL that nobody wants to touch and nobody can afford to leav…
How I turned the pain of inheriting legacy systems into an open-source framework that produces structured diagnostics — tested on real production co…
Why race‑condition crashes only appear under specific timing, vanish under debugging, and produce different stack traces on every run. Race‑conditio…
Before modernizing legacy systems with AI, assess your verification capacity. Migration requires testing, observability, human judgment, and methodo…
I was diagnosed with stage 3 cancer. Surgery is scheduled for December 31st. Last day of 2020. Fitting. I'm not going to use this space for medical…
You've inherited a system that nobody wants to touch. It's ten years old. There are class files with three thousand lines. The naming convention cha…
Иногда систему нужно быстро объяснить человеку со стороны: новому разработчику, техлиду, архитектору, аудитору или инвестору на technical due dilige…
Anthropic's new Mythos Preview surfaced a 27-year-old vulnerability in OpenBSD — the most-audited operating system in commercial software — and gene…