161: Code Reviews with Chelsea Troy

July 22, 2024

One of the reasons why it is difficult to work with legacy code is the lack of preserving the contextual reasons for past coding choices.

Today we talk with Chelsea Troy, a Machine Learning Team Lead at Mozilla and a computer science lecturer at the University of Chicago. She tells us about the value of code review in the software-building process and why code review should not be treated solely as a mechanism for approval.

When you finish listening to the episode, visit Chelsea's website at https://chelseatroy.com.

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Chelsea’s website at https://chelseatroy.com

Legacy Code Rocks

Legacy Code Rocks explores the world of modernizing existing software applications.

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In this show, Hosts Andrea Goulet and M. Scott Ford of Corgibytes are out to change the way you think about legacy code.

If you're like a lot of people, when you hear the words "legacy code" it conjures up images of big mainframes and archaic punch card machines. While that's true — it only tells a small part of the story. The code you leave behind is your legacy, so let's make it a good one.

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