How do you tackle a backlog of deferred maintenance you didn't create?

By zeelex · 2026-06-25 · 3 points · 0 comments

I don't mean migration in the sense of switching databases or rewriting in another language. I mean that a codebase rots if nobody maintains it. Deprecations, warnings, upstream changes — each is cheap to handle the moment it appears, often a 10-minute fix (let's say 'in average…

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