How Terrible Code Gets Written by Perfectly Sane People

All’inizio avevo pensato di postare un estratto, poi ho detto, “ma perché mai?”; mi limito all’introduzione:

When I found out I would be working on porting an old Python codebase to Node, I was slightly excited. These kinds of projects always give you more creative freedom than the ordinary code maintenance gig, and something about the challenge of rewriting other people’s code makes it fun as hell.

Il resto merita una lettura completa, approfondita e ragionata. Personalmente sono arrivato quasi alla commozione di fronte a questo post.