Received "emergency update" code from internal enterprise security team. Wasn't given time to do code review; was assured code was reviewed and solid.

Pushed code to over 6k lower-level servers before finding this gem buried deep within:
...
cd /foo; rm -rf *; cd /
...

(This ran as root, and yes, the cwd was / from earlier in the code).

/foo, of course, did not exist on some servers.

Now, it is those servers which do not exist.

FML

It's off-putting that
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isn't a palindrome, but
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is

age += 1

Couldn't say it better myself.

When you fire a sysadmin... think twice.

how to improve UX

When you finally finish the WordPress site your client thought u built from scratch

Best Git commit msg I ever saw was nothing more than: "please work"
...found after a junior dev left our company and we were reviewing things

Being in a rush = guaranteed way to make everything take longer.

Example: Typing your long, secure repo password wrong 5+ times in a row... when you are in a rush and just want to push your commit so you can get on with life.