Do you leave easter eggs at any of your projects? If yes - what are the most interesting of them?

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no.. not getting paid to jerk off.. ;)

Not easter eggs precisely but there is the occasional hidden feature for debugging or experimental functions.

@Darkside how do you type arrows?

@Huuugo keydown event

I usually write funny error messages, but then again nobody will ever see them because my software has no bugs *duck and run*

We have one that is an internal joke where there is a chance of it playing a wookie sound when the COO logs in to their account.

(we call them chewy because they are hairy)

@Huuugo oh, does your software magically guard against user errors? :p

@lotd when the user does something wrong, it's getting terminated. The user, I mean, not the program, of course!

I did some ADN sequence alignment viewer. Typically you see each nucleotide as a color square with a letter inside. But if you zoom in enough it shows the image of the molecule instead. Biologists allucinated with this easter egg.

@Huuugo the user gets terminated with an error, so they know why.. Right? :p

@lotd The user gets terminated...seems a little harsh.

I leave them by accident. Most people call them bugs.

Of course,
If I tell you when and where it will, however, remove my ability to stay hidden amongst my co workers on devRant.

I do it in almost every project. Last one was a hidden unicorn below the about stuff and if you click it shows and runs out if the screen. =)

Admin admin as auth header. Its in production.

If sixty six requests are simultaneously in the queue the one on place 66 gets priority and a video of Palpatine saying "Execute order 66" would pop up on the client side. Sadly enough that only happens during nightlys when all the servers want to be tested simultaneously and so other than me nobody ever saw it.

At the footer of the page near the copy right it shows an emoji of a little boy or a little girl on my kids birthdays. I often leave Easter eggs in the JS sourcecode too.

If you have no work assigned to you, you clicked on the unicorn that says "you've got nothing to do!" And a brick breaker game appears

I like to comment my code with a bit of humour in between the actual info, so the next dev that works on the project can have a brighter day...and forget all the crap in my actual code :))

Also, I once used comments inside the code to chat with another dev I was working with by pushing commits to git with questions and answers for stuff we needed to do.

We kept the chat history in the code and deployed it in production, along with the code.

I still wonder if the next guys that worked on it kept it going :)

Not exactly an easter egg, more like an easter error.

I once made a big project for our city's tourism department and put "please knock on your table 3 times and try again" as a message for database problems.

Nothing happened for a few years until some server changes rendered the database inaccessible. the city tourism site started displaying that message to everybody, from the city hall president, administration, whole city, tourists and worst of all, my boss.

Got a reprimand and polite request not to use messages like that on public administration projects...
(i still do it, and proud to be error/reprimand free since 2009)

On lifestride.com, if you search for "our puppy", a full screen picture of a dog appears

On bzees.com, with a mobile device, if you go to the "fetching hope" page, click the slider arrow down the page, and then shake your phone a dog will bark.

I'll have another for naturalizer.com once our rebrand goes live 😂

Ive made a function once to travel through thr call history. To go forward again I call backToTheFuture().