Over the last year or so, if I wanted LivePress to do something different, I’d hack it up with some ginsu knives, paying no mind to elegance or maintainability and just moved on with business. I mean, I never planned on having anybody else use my copy, right? So why bother?
But now that I’m giving it a little more forethought, I am just amazed the thing worked as well as it did for me for so long. I’m talking typos, chunks of code all over the place that do nothing but stink up files, bad formatting, readability factor of 0. And now as I fix one bug, another one surfaces.
It reminds me of the snowball effect a lot of the old, poorly maintained IRIX servers at work caused because one fixing one problem will undoubtedly result in you opening pandora’s box . “Oh apache won’t start? No problem! …Oh no.. on one of those ? Let me clear my schedule for the rest of the day”. Working on it makes me sweat. Hopefully it’s the de-toxing kind of sweat because I need it.
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