Jimmy Miller talks to us about his experience with a legacy codebase at his first job as a programmer. The codebase was massive, with hundreds of thousands of lines of C# and Visual Basic, and a database with over 1,000 columns. Let’s just say Jimmy got into some stuff. There’s even a Gilfoyle involved. This episode is all about his adventures while working there.
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Notes & Links
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Chapters
| Chapter Number | Chapter Start Time | Chapter Title | Chapter Duration |
| 1 | 00:00 | This is The Changelog | 01:31 |
| 2 | 01:31 | Sponsor: Assembly AI | 02:21 |
| 3 | 03:52 | Start the show!! | 05:20 |
| 4 | 09:13 | The company | 02:36 |
| 5 | 11:49 | How did we get here? | 04:55 |
| 6 | 16:44 | Let's go back to the columns | 08:22 |
| 7 | 25:06 | The Secret Service busted in my door | 09:30 |
| 8 | 34:36 | Sponsor: Supabase | 03:24 |
| 9 | 38:00 | The Calendar | 05:44 |
| 10 | 43:44 | Why stay? | 10:59 |
| 11 | 54:43 | What about ops? | 09:07 |
| 12 | 1:03:50 | Sponsor: Speakeasy | 00:49 |
| 13 | 1:04:39 | Sponsor: Test Double | 03:16 |
| 14 | 1:07:55 | Gilfoyle the thing | 01:19 |
| 15 | 1:09:14 | Dead codebases | 02:13 |
| 16 | 1:11:28 | The beautiful mess | 03:28 |
| 17 | 1:14:56 | Talking to users | 04:57 |
| 18 | 1:19:53 | Wrapping up | 01:28 |
| 19 | 1:21:21 | Closing thoughts and stuff | 02:51 |