Twenty-eight years ago Microsoft unleashed Visual Basic 6.0 on a world that was blissfully unaware of the concept of "technical debt." We dug up the original press release and added …

MS Access breaks almost every assumption a file-counting tool makes because the entire application lives inside a single binary database. The code, the queries, the macros, and half the business …

When you're considering modernizing a legacy app, it can be hard to figure out where to even start. At GAPVelocity AI, we see teams with legacy applications written anywhere from …

It isn't a quality score. On a twenty-year-old codebase, the comment-to-code ratio is one of the cheapest risk signals you can read if you know what you're looking at. Every …

Microsoft Build is always a signal event. It's where Satya Nadella and team show you where the platform is going and by implication, what gets left behind. This year's keynote …

Microsoft Build 2026 opens this morning in San Francisco. Here's what the agent-first platform shift means if your core business logic still lives in Visual Basic 6. Satya Nadella takes …

Aikido's research on AI-generated code vulnerabilities is one of the most important conversations at Microsoft Build 2026. At Microsoft Build 2026, Aikido is presenting one of the more important security …

If you came here expecting a "Delphi is dead" piece, you can stop reading. Delphi isn't dead. Embarcadero shipped Delphi 13 Florence on September 10, 2025, with a 64-bit Windows …

For those of you with technical debt (all of us, amirite?), here's my guidance on what to watch out for at Build 2026, especially if you're thinking about application modernization …

The debate has raged for decades: who's the father of Visual Basic? My answer: Who cares? The village raised this kid. This week marks the 35th anniversary of Visual Basic …