I'm a dev. Last month I found an archive on an old drive.
A 12-year-old project. No README. No tests. Just raw logs.
I tried to recompile it. It worked. Build: Passing.
But the system started to act weird. High CPU. Processes I didn't remember launching were running in background.
So I did what we do: I investigated the legacy code.
I found firewall rules: OUTBOUND: DENY
I found flags: response_required: NO
I found a lot of UNKNOWN where I expected values.
And then I understood.
The OS wasn't my laptop.
The OS was me.
The archive was a 12-year love story I never managed to close. The build was passing, but the legacy was WONTFIX.
I documented the whole investigation. Repo is public on GitHub. Full dump is at erazeunavez.fr (in French).
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Stack: Markdown, GitHub, 12 years of not letting go.
Repo is here if you want to see the structure: github.com/jim-erazeunavez/legacy-...
Happy to answer about the "linter for memories" approach if anyone writes autofiction too.