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| Date | Provider | Score | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Aug 2026, 2:25 PM | The Register | 2.0 | Five years after quitting a job, developer’s former boss asked for rapid tech support
A developer who wrote mail-order software in the mid-1980s using the Pick minicomputer OS/database was called back five years later by his former boss after a fired clerk unplugged the machine mid-print in an apparent act of sabotage. The fix was simply plugging it back in and rebooting, for which the developer charged a lucrative fee. Why: Mildly amusing reminder that institutional knowledge of legacy systems has real value, but the article offers no actionable technical or business takeaway for modern builders. |
| 10 Aug 2026, 2:30 PM | The Register | 2.0 | Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn
A developer facing low morale after layoffs symlinked /usr/bin/python3 to /usr/bin/python2 to avoid a proper Python 2-to-3 migration, and it silently worked well enough that nobody noticed. The shortcut was later discovered and surfaced on LinkedIn, turning a desperate hack into an embarrassing career moment. Why: A fun cautionary tale, but there's no actionable takeaway for builders beyond the obvious: symlink-aliasing one runtime to another to skip a migration is technical debt that will eventually surface publicly. Not worth changing any decision over. |