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I had no idea this issue had been identified. While I find this tool very useful, the project is seeming rather questionable to me now.

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[–] [email protected] 178 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I was bored at work one day. I decided to put a nyan cat easter egg in my company's app. If at the loading progress bar screen you typed NYAN it would turn the progress bar into a rainbow being created by a little nyan cat while playing the nyan cat song. The mp3 (inconspicuously renamed without the extension) doubled our build size. No one batted an eye cause no one paid attention to the build size much.

Fast forward 5 years later, at a different job, I get a phone call from the old boss. Do you happen to know anything about this nyan cat file we found?

I had no idea what he was talking about.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Years and years ago I worked on a project where the logo was the outline of a head and an inward swirl for the brain.

For the website, if you held your mouse over it for 9 seconds, it would spin and flush. No one ever found that one that I know of.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Should've included that in your FE analytics.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Aaaand thats why all commits should be signed with your pgp key

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It sounds like they weren’t using any form of version control, so that’s definitely on them at this point

[–] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

What makes you say that? To me, it sounds like that's what they do have cause they tracked the change back to him. The commit message obviously said nothing about the file.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Ah I could see that. I took it as them not knowing where the file came from at all, so they’re just asking all the devs who would have had access at that point, which is why it was “hey do you know anything about this file?” and not “is there a specific reason you committed this file to the build?”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

You think they'd call up devs who left them just to ask if they happen to know about a random file?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

That story was a journey.