Legacy projects are great! If you don't have any current critical time pressures, you've now got yourself a beautiful puzzle to slowly unfold and understand. If

Legacy projects are great! If you don't have any current critical time pressures, you've now got yourself a beautiful puzzle to slowly unfold and understand. If you've got things like git blame annotations turned on you can read commit messages, see past pull requests and really start to get a feel for the people who worked on the project previously and understand how their minds work. The biggest challenge is of course trying to prevent those feelings becoming contempt, rage and resentment as you see the same mistake repeated over and over again by one person who should know better while they make funny little comments in their commit messages while writing bugs that end up causing data corruption a year down the line. The trick is mindfulness meditation and definitely not going to LinkedIn, printing out a copy of their face and then ripping it up while screaming.