October 2026

It's only an origin video game if it's from Origin Systems. Otherwise it's sparkling nostalgia.

And yet, in five years, I’m sure there will be old heads doggedly adding “you are an experienced software developer, make no mistakes” to their custom instructions.

I had nothing to do with the development of Hibernate, except that I happened to be in the room at the time holding a beer. But it is still a fun story.

None of these compare, of course, to the one someone added to Jira that was later discovered to be accidentally adding several megabytes of (I seem to recall) a hidden gif to the initial page load.