Definitely my favorite episode of the year! I liked the original blog post, and LOVED this episode. Thanks for getting Jimmy on.

You hear so many horror stories, and judgement and chastising about how those lazy incompetent devs did it wrong…it’s so refreshing to hear a “horror story” of a fun job! The color on the various characters like Munch and Gilfoyle is just fantastic.

I also have had some experience with some real frankenstiens of codebases, and may even be somewhat responsible for writing some. And I’ve seen the flip side too, where there’s all the best practices, tests, conventions, etc.

As Jimmy points out, the key is having at least one Munch who knows how everything works and actually cares. Without that, even a beautifully designed, clean codebase written with all the best practices is doomed.

Super enjoyable and entertaining.