Working Software

Episode 86: Scary Code

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On this episode of the Acima Development podcast, the crew leans into a Halloween “code horror” theme, using real-world stories to explore the scariest things they’ve seen in software. Mike opens with a literal horror from homeownership: a drain pipe so clogged with roots it had become a pipe-shaped root sculpture, a perfect metaphor for an ancient 3,000+ line Rails controller crammed with…