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michabbb<p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PotpieAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PotpieAI</span></a>: Create Custom <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Engineering</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Agents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Agents</span></a> for Your <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Codebase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Codebase</span></a> in Minutes 🥧</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PotpieAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PotpieAI</span></a> is an <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> platform that creates <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> agents specialized in your <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/codebase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>codebase</span></a>, enabling automated code analysis, testing, and development tasks. </p><p>🧵👇<a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/DevOps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DevOps</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coding</span></a></p>
PrivacyDigest<p>What could possibly go wrong? <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> to rapidly rebuild <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/codebase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>codebase</span></a>.</p><p>Under any circumstances, a migration of this size and scale would be a massive undertaking, experts tell WIRED, but the expedited deadline runs the risk of obstructing payments to the more than 65 million people in the US currently receiving Social Security benefits.<br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/cobol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cobol</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ssa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ssa</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/takeover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>takeover</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/retirement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retirement</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/takedown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>takedown</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maga</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> </p><p>&gt; sadly, most likely crash and burn</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-doge-to-rapidly-rebuild-social-security-codebase/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20</span><span class="invisible">25/03/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-doge-to-rapidly-rebuild-social-security-codebase/</span></a></p>
Manuel 'HonkHase' Atug<p>What a bunch of morons... 😤</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> Plans to Rebuild SSA <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Codebase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Codebase</span></a> in Months, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Risking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Risking</span></a> Benefits and System <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Collapse</span></a></p><p>"Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/COBOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COBOL</span></a>, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.</p><p>Musk pointed to data he allegedly pulled from the system that showed 150-year-olds in the US were receiving benefits, something that isn’t actually happening..."<br><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-s</span><span class="invisible">ocial-security-administration-cobol-benefits/</span></a></p>
PrivacyDigest<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> Plans to Rebuild <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SSA</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Codebase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Codebase</span></a> In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurity</span></a> systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in <a href="https://mas.to/tags/COBOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COBOL</span></a> , an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.</p><p>&gt; <a href="https://mas.to/tags/deluded" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deluded</span></a> or <a href="https://mas.to/tags/lying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lying</span></a> ? They couldn’t even handle building that website. </p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-s</span><span class="invisible">ocial-security-administration-cobol-benefits/</span></a></p>
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>“If you've ever maintained the same piece of software for more than a couple years, you'll understand how hard it is to pivot already-finished <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/tools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tools</span></a> to learn from <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ParadigmShifts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParadigmShifts</span></a> in the industry. Even if you try your hardest, it's very easy for the old way of doing things to be woven throughout your <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/codebase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>codebase</span></a> as assumptions.</p><p>As <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/JessFrazlle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JessFrazlle</span></a> mentioned in her first post, this is why most <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/CAD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CAD</span></a> software is not extensible. Most of them have assumptions about software that were true in 1990 but aren't anymore: that the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> doesn't exist; that <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/GPUs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GPUs</span></a> don't exist; that clicking is easier than typing for most user interactions”</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>engineering</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/API" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>API</span></a> &lt;<a href="https://zoo.dev/blog/api-first-approach" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">zoo.dev/blog/api-first-approac</span><span class="invisible">h</span></a>&gt;</p>
Hacker News<p>Tach – Visualize and untangle your Python codebase — <a href="https://github.com/gauge-sh/tach" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/gauge-sh/tach</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tach</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Visualization</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Codebase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Codebase</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tools</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a></p>
Paolo Amoroso<p>Another thing to do with codebases: explore the non code files which tell fascinating stories about the projects, their authors, and maintainers.</p><p>Some examples of what can be found buried in source trees: READMEs, FAQs, design documents, screenshots, manifestos, rants, research papers and technical reports, archives of mailing list discussions, acknowledgments and credits, guides for contributors, and more.</p><p><a href="https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/things-you-can-to-with-codebases" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">registerspill.thorstenball.com</span><span class="invisible">/p/things-you-can-to-with-codebases</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/codebase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>codebase</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a></p>
Scottish Lass<p>So chuffed. Got my first formal education certificate in a few decades.<br>I'm certified noo😜 <br>Thank you yet again to all the staff at <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/CodeClan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CodeClan</span></a> who went above and beyond the call of duty teaching and supporting students especially after the liquidation and transfer to <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/CodeBase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CodeBase</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/DataScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SQA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SQA</span></a></p>