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Stig's Soapbox

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It's been more than five years since my last musical goals post, where I set some process-oriented goals, in addition to my longer-term outcome-oriented ones. I share my journey, progress on the old goals, and set some new ones.

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Alien Artefacts

The purpose of this blog post is to introduce the concept of alien artefacts 1 , a subcategory of legacy code. I use the term to describe particularly complicated and important pieces of software written by very smart engineers that are no longer working for the company—and thus not available to support it. The…