2026-07-27 00:16 UTC
Someone else on my team now uses a Mac, and every now and then some Unicode hyphen character makes its way into comments and my Linux box displays a mysterious character when I page through the code that always catches me off guard.
I could go on and on about all of our recognizable quirks, but living in a code base with that history is like living in a Berkeley Craftsman home.
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@levork@graphics.social 2026-07-27 00:17
It's old, it's creaky, okay, it's missing AC and you're probably going to die when it hits 100 in the summer (which happens all too often these days), but dammit, it's charming and it's artsy and you will die defending the seventeen layers of paint that have accrued in the living room (or you're just too scared to sand it because of lead paint). It's lived in and it's comfortable. Whereas if you've looked at Claude generated code, like I've had to for the past six months, it's... (8/10)