It was a mishmash. The parts written by later employees were strongly typed and easy to follow. The parts he wrote weren't typed at all and frequently relied on

It was a mishmash. The parts written by later employees were strongly typed and easy to follow. The parts he wrote weren't typed at all and frequently relied on implicit conversions and bitwise operators to do magic operations that would take us mere mortals several days to even begin to understand, all just to save what would've been like 3 lines of code and a single comment. Inheriting that codebase felt like watching one of those serial killer dramas... obviously a really smart guy, but with a psychology unlike most people I've ever met, and really hard to follow as a normal person. I still see him with a mixture of respect, awe, curiosity, and wonder. The thing is, none of the stuff he gave is was actually complicated. It's just a basic business dashboard. But he reinvented almost every single part of it in totally nonstandard ways that the whole project was less about coding and more about anthropology and forensic psychology.