I always say I write throwaway code that never dies. I shutter to think how many pieces of code I wrote 10+ years ago are still buried deep in systems running today. Shutter.

oof, this comic hurts so bad it’s funny.

I have a mental image of 50+ lines that could be replaced with 15 if someone just used a loop.

The most permanent solution is jank that works.

There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution

It is always the worst code you wrote that survives. There’s a terrible university dorm management software I wrote eight years ago as a student. They still use it. The crazy complicated test framework wrappers for some hardware I wrote five years ago. They still use it. The godawful and crazy complicated communication protocol I whipped up four years ago, still used in medical equipment today.

I really think that optimization courses should have a special lecture in the optimization of optimization…