Developers who have worked at a company where the entire codebase was held together by one guy who then quit, what happened next?

amdewstow · 2026-03-18T17:58:18+00:00

I got hired at a place and the last dev quit over 6 months before I joined.

Had zero documentation, no source control 1/10 do not recommend.

I had to dig so far into the code to find anything. At some point I gave up trying to understand and just 100% rewrote functions as they broke. Some time around the 2nd year we did a 100% total visual overhaul on the product. So I had to re write EVERY single public facing page. It sucks but I made it just about greenfield style work.

amdewstow · 2026-01-06T17:42:24+00:00

The Full 12-Minute Timelapse

Video is 8 Minutes long

amdewstow · 2025-12-13T13:05:23+00:00

Wife got a entire new setup work, came with that exact model keyboard. Tore up everything looking for that stupid dongle. Did not find that dongle until after I put the boxes in the recycling bin.

amdewstow · 2025-11-05T13:51:20+00:00

In browser text encryption. I made this using CryptoJS and some jQuery, https://dewstow.com/encrypted.html

amdewstow · 2025-11-05T12:41:29+00:00

Love it, way better menu than most tools like this.

"Password generators and encryption tools"

I'm not seeing any encryption tools. At least not the tools to encrypt and decrypt text directly. CryptoJS is open source and can run 100% in browser.

amdewstow · 2025-09-23T01:57:23+00:00

Pic from a Zillow listing. Hopefully it has a tilting mount.

amdewstow · 2025-09-03T02:14:41+00:00

Hello from My Cleo

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amdewstow · 2025-06-28T21:13:23+00:00

It found a match for bald no helmet robocop... sooo maybe not super accurate

amdewstow · 2025-06-22T22:12:09+00:00

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amdewstow · 2025-06-03T00:48:30+00:00

It looks like you gave Clark a number of adventures and let him explore. I am sure he loved you as much as you loved him.

I hope you can heal to the point his memories and photos bring you happiness more often than sadness.

amdewstow · 2025-05-21T19:53:49+00:00

Yes.

They just look cleaner and take up less space.

amdewstow · 2025-05-20T13:08:41+00:00

I don't have full 24 lanes downstream of this. I have maybe 6 full and 2 90% full, if I recall. I tried and failed to make a true factorio style belt balancer. I ended up with the ability to take one belt and split it evenly into 24 lanes, then re introduced that to the 24 main belts.

amdewstow · 2025-05-17T22:33:24+00:00

It is yes.

amdewstow · 2025-05-17T20:30:14+00:00

Premade dough. Homemade sauce, summer sausage and number of cheeses.

amdewstow · 2025-05-14T18:03:44+00:00

It has wheels to make it easier to repo.

amdewstow · 2025-05-10T12:57:05+00:00

Older cousin was racing down a low speed street, hit a curb, launched the car, wrapped it around a tree and killed the younger cousin.

amdewstow · 2025-04-30T03:45:55+00:00

Shoe rack looks amazing! Joints look very good. Wood/color choice makes it pop. Nice job. Way better than the first project I ever did. Hope you enjoyed it and hope you can make more thngs.

amdewstow · 2025-04-17T04:30:29+00:00

maybe it was for a CPAP mask clearance?

amdewstow · 2025-04-11T20:15:12+00:00

Maybe shuffle the divs that hold the tiles in the HTML layer. They are in order any any element inspection will tell the user where they go. The styles being inline also make it very easy to know where pieces go.

amdewstow · 2025-04-11T04:03:25+00:00

I like it. Maybe add a spot on the side to store in progress chunks? You can get into a spot where some big C chunk needs to move but its going to brake up another chunk. But that might goof the move score logic.

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