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Content There's a repo on Github containing some scripts used by a tech employee that his coworkers discovered after he left the company. Here's a summary of his shenanigans: xxx: OK, so, our build engineer has left for another company. The dude was literally living inside the terminal. You know, that type of a guy who loves Vim, creates diagrams in Dot and writes wiki-posts in Markdown... If something - anything - requires more than 90 seconds of his time, he writes a script to automate that. xXx: So we're sitting here, looking through his, uhm, "legacy" xxx: You're gonna love this xxx: smack-my-bitch-up.sh - sends a text message "late at work" to his wife (apparently). Automatically picks reasons from an array of strings, randomly. Runs inside a cron-job. The job fires if there are active SSH-sessions on the server after 9pm with his login. xxx: kumar-asshole.sh - scans the inbox for emails from "Kumar" (a DBA at our clients). Looks for keywords like "help", "trouble", "sorry" etc. If keywords are found - the script SSHes into the clients server and rolls back the staging database to the latest backup. Then sends a reply "no worries mate, be careful next time xxx: hangover.sh - another cron-job that is set to specific dates. Sends automated emails like "not feeling well gonna work from home" etc. Adds a random "reason" from another predefined array of strings. Fires if there are no interactive sessions on the server at 8:45am. xxx: (and the oscar goes to) fucking-coffee.sh - this one waits exactly 17 seconds (!), then opens a telnet session to our coffee-machine (we had no frikin idea the coffee machine is on the network, runs linux and has a TCP socket up and running) and sends something like sys brew. Turns out this thing starts brewing a mid-sized half-caf latte and waits another 24 (!) seconds before pouring it into a cup. The timing is exactly how long it takes to walk to the machine from the dudes desk. xxx: holy sht I'm keeping those Reply 4 10.3k J

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Content Omar Hernandez 3rd Software Developer 18h 0 Follow My mother had a look at my code today and said: "So, your job is about writing text using random English words and symbols in fancy colors? I do not know why you get so well paid for that. That text is not even properly aligned to the left." She would be a very good code reviewer. CEO 5,697 91 comments 49 shares

This meme is pure database nerd gold! It cleverly parodies political news by imagining Trump imposing tariffs on "foreign keys" - which in database terms are constraints that link tables together in relational databases. The punchline about "American keys are bigger, better, and will make your database great again" is brilliant because it plays on Trump's nationalistic rhetoric while making a ridiculous claim about database architecture that would horrify any DBA. The final touch about Microsoft and Oracle being "somewhat happy" is *chef's kiss* - implying these tech giants would profit from this chaos while database administrators everywhere have existential crises about how to "manage relationships now." Just like real politics affecting real industries!

The four horsemen of SQL development: finger-cracking before joining those tables, neck-craning to decipher someone else's query, thigh-rubbing after sitting for 8 hours optimizing indexes, and the dreaded accidental CAPS LOCK when typing commands. Nothing says "I'm about to destroy this entire database" quite like accidentally typing DELETE FROM USERS instead of delete from users. The database doesn't care about your feelings, but it sure cares about your capitalization.

Content Using databases to store passwords and usernames Letting users in 70 of the time because statistically passwords are entered correctly 70 of the time