I had an idea for a story along these lines. A young programmer doing late-nighters, getting deeply into code written by a deceased master, getting the feeling

I had an idea for a story along these lines. A young programmer doing late-nighters, getting deeply into code written by a deceased master, getting the feeling of connection by reading the comments, debugging and so on. Very small pool of potential readers, but it would be quite cool if done right. Nothing overtly supernatural. Based on personal experience ;)