WE TRY OUR BEST with the trials we have been issued, okay, lol

I'm pretty sure any 26 year legacy codebase will contain Crimes regardless of language. The whole WTF-8 thing is practically a guarantee of some bodies buried.

It's really interesting, because the original founder of LJ was a fucking genius (and I don't say that lightly) who anticipated so much of the modern web stack that we have so many of the modern solutions, just the "extremely rough first version that never got any of the polish"!

It's a genuine fucking crime he will never receive a hundredth of the credit he deserves, I swear