When "It Compiled" Is the Dangerous Part
How 4 lines in a header file crashed an entire migration attempt.
The Setup
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Y2038: When "Impossible" Means "Wrong Approach"
How a single compile flag replaced a failed 18-month migration attempt.
A 30+ year old system: dozens of statically linked 32-bit executables, tens of thousands of lines of C code, thousands of business scripts on an embedded interpreter. No tests. [Read More] -
Local LLMs for Code Review: Why I Don't Send Proprietary Code to the Cloud
llama.cpp, a proprietary codebase, and the compliance department that would murder me.
I built an automated code review pipeline for a legacy codebase. The code is proprietary. The language is proprietary. The business logic is proprietary. Sending any of it to an external API was not an option. [Read More] -
Parity Testing: The Only Definition of Correct
Unit tests can't save you. Code review can't save you. Only the database knows the truth.
When you translate a script from a proprietary language to Python 3, how do you know it’s correct? [Read More] -
Teaching an LLM a Language It Has Never Seen
No fine-tuning, no training data, no examples on the internet. Just a spec and a prayer.
The proprietary scripting language in this migration has zero presence on the internet — no Stack Overflow questions, no GitHub repos, no documentation outside the company. Some claim no documentation inside the company either. It’s been running production workloads for over two decades, and the only people who know it... [Read More]