I put an Easter egg into a product, that if you enter the string "final countdown" into the stock code search field, it plays a YouTube vid of Europe's "The Final Countdown", in a hidden div. It's an in-joke for a few people in the company.

A well meaning maintainer with no sense of humour or judgement takes over and goes on the warpath against any hardcoded strings. The secret code gets moved into a config file.

A third developer changes the deployment script so that it clears any configs that aren't explicitly set in the deployment settings.

So the secret code is now "".

Literally every PC in the stock buying department is now blaring out "The Final Countdown" at top volume.

...Except none of them have speakers, so it remains this way for over a year and two more changes of maintainer.

I just noticed this afternoon and quietly re-hardcoded the string. The buying dept.'s PCs will silently sing no more.

If Programming Languages Were Girls:

Java: Your current girlfriend, you've been going steady for a while now. Things are okay.

Kotlin: The girl Java finds you cheating on, she's just amazing, and you wish you'd met her sooner.

Visual Basic: The girl you accidentally started a relationship with because you didn't know how to say no. But quickly realised your mistake and regretted it.

JavaScript: A childhood friend you occasionally hook up with. But you could never settle for a relationship with them.

Python: A bossy, manipulative girl who quickly turned things sour. But everyone else loves her because of her huge libraries.
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My and a co worker were joking the other day about what programming languages would be like if they were girls. This is what we came up with (Original inspiration: the Distracted Boyfriend meme (Feel free to add your own!)).

Trust Me Devs,
In INDIA we use this to WASH DISHES in the Kitchen...

Come on guys! It's not that bad.

!rant

Q: Why’s it called back end development?
A: Because all you ever get from it is absolute shit

When your public transportation system worth billions uses windows 7

When I added that bug fix to my code a few weeks ago only myself and God knew what I changed - now only git knows...

Rest is always good. Even if you are taking it after lunch or calling an API😝

What will you do when you C a Python?

The sorting hat 🎩 from Harry Potter🧙 movies would have put me in Slytherin🐍
Any guesses why??😏
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I know Python.🐍😝

I never noticed the official name for git on the manual page is "the stupid content tracker"

What's your address?

I know coding DAO Shell C