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📚 Back to School Memories: What's the funniest coding-related incident you recall from your early days as a developer?
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Once I wrote a Perl-based libusb interface for use with MTP using
Inline::C. I was working on using Perl to make a desktop app which managed podcasts on an MTP device.The driver worked fantastically, but ironically the Qt bindings for Perl weren’t thread-safe. This meant I couldn’t stop the UI from locking up every time I made a network request, so I didn’t release it because the experience was terrible.
I did use the MTP module for a while, and at one point I used it to make a little CLI app for this USB dart turret.
Finding comments in code referring to old adventure games like Zork
Visual Basic 3 (and/or 6? not sure) used 'dips' (device-independent pixels) as the standard unit of measure and it would always mess up my pixel-perfect layouts. I wrote this sort of calibration tool to figure out the number of dips per pixel on a system but what an idiot I was! You could just go to the form (window) and select pixels as the unit of measurement. Well I was 12 or something so I have an excuse.
I worked as an outsourced for a project using Java/JBoss server.
When starting up the JBoss server, between the logs there was the whole "Our Father" prayer printed out.