NEW YEAR, NEW BUG – RIVALRY BETWEEN DEVS LED TO A DEEP-CODE DISASTER

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Two programmers named Jack and Irving worked at a small company that developed productivity software. Jack wanted his name to come first in the About box. In a petty move, Jack hid code in the program that would move his name to come first in the About box on the first day of the new year. However, this code caused a critical bug that crashed older Amiga machines, leading to customer complaints. The scenario reinforces the lesson of always testing code on the lowest-spec machine your users have.