Flashes of Panic

File under: How soon do we get rid of the smartass?

A co-worker was seeing unusual behavior from an object in our catalog. I tracked down the problem (I was using something as a database key without explicitly declaring it so, or even enforcing key-like behavior, and I’d gotten away with it for more than a year,) and fixed the specific data corruption issue.

She emailed in response: “What will we do without you?”

I replied, “Hopefully, find and patch all the bugs I’ve created.”

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