Ask HN: What's your worst programming blunder and/or code you're most proud of

[dvektor]

This was a question that went around at a monthly team social meeting, (might be common for all I know) but I thought it incited some good discussions/laughs.

I pushed a "fix" (what ended up being breaking changes) to our demo environment 20 mins before a company wide demo. Fortunately I live in a terminal, so I was able to ssh in and spam cli commands + vi fast enough to get things going again with only a slightly awkward introduction delay. I also neglected to remake the MX records when migrating our domain, leading to a few days of email silence.

Nothing too bad tho, all things considered. Would love to hear other's responses.

[codevark]

At one point in the nineties, while furiously coding a seminal eCommerce app, my friend/boss walked up behind me and said, "Mr. Zoon, you're typing wildly on the keyboard with nothing happening on the screen." I had lost focus to my editor several minute before and being a non-touch-typist hadn't noticed. A few years later, farther into the eCommerce thing, a stubborn bug had held up things for a couple of weeks, Again, my boss/friend walked up behind me and pointed out that I had misspelled a variable name in a certain section of code. The good old days, heh. The code I wrote resulted in a multiple-award-winning product that outsold our competitor's products so quickly that they removed their products from the market. I bought a truck and a house.