Nine years ago, I built an app called Highlander. It was one of those projects you never forget,...
Nine years ago, I built an app called Highlander. It was one of those projects you never forget, but over time it broke: old dependencies, outdated tooling, local setup drift, and deployment blockers.
This week, I brought it back to life. Not by rewriting everything from scratch. By pairing with Codex and treating the work like a Product Engineer: fix what matters, unblock users, and ship value fast.
The Problem: The app was frozen in time:
Old Node/Knex/Bookshelf stack
Broken local boot flow
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