Refactoring Shock Can Kill
This is a funny parody of an outdoor survival guide for programmers.
WHEN STEVE DUMB STUMBLED ACROSS THE SPAGHETTI of a legacy code library sunk into the muck in the labyrinthine of Upper Management Cost Saving Schemes, the unease he had felt since becoming lost in the Corporate wilderness turned to terror. “I’m going to die here.” he remembers thinking. Alone and cold. Dumb was catapulting into the third and most dangerous stage of the phenomenon psychologists call “Refactoring shock,” the confusion and fear that humans feel when they become lost in code.
