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Hit 2, 3, and 4 all on my first project. That went down badly.

A project existed, that I thought sucked, for storing customer details, to let techs remotely lookup things like onsite IP addresses and the like, because clients never really set aside time to document.

I thought two weeks to rebuild the frontend in Python... It took 8, and did not a damn thing more or less, was slower, less reliable and fewer techs knew Python.

I thought it was great for having 100% test coverage, but the fact of the matter was it sucked, was overtime, and pretty much a waste of developer resources.

However, it did inspire the maintainer of the better, original version to document his code, and build a test suite, because he could basically rework the one I made.



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