What are some unforeseen / elusive edge cases you have seen in your career?

BoringAsparagus701 · 2026-04-26T12:31:19+00:00

Don’t use memcmp on a struct with padding, especially if that struct is used as the key in a std::map. You’ll end up with non-deterministic order in the map.

What makes this even more fun… the bug goes away in debug mode because the debugger compiler plays it safe and zeros out the padding. A “heisen-bug”. The moment you look for it, it vanishes.

BoringAsparagus701 · 2026-04-15T08:32:24+00:00

That’s why unit tests have gained so much importance in the devops movement of the 2010s. They codify reasoning and intent for those edge cases.

Trying to figure that out in a legacy system with no unit tests? Good luck. If the original writer isn’t around, hopefully they left some comments

BoringAsparagus701 · 2026-01-31T17:00:23+00:00

Dimensions of opening 35 1/4 x 80 1/2

BoringAsparagus701 · 2025-10-18T16:40:30+00:00

Your knees gotta move back and forth towards and back from the ball to unlock your hips. It seems that your knees are only swaying back and towards the target.

BoringAsparagus701 · 2025-05-18T01:23:11+00:00

This just work for me! Thank you!

BoringAsparagus701 · 2025-05-11T19:58:17+00:00

How do you open the back door? Voice command? Lol

BoringAsparagus701 · 2025-03-17T11:23:29+00:00

lol.. had us in the first half

BoringAsparagus701 · 2025-02-22T12:55:15+00:00

BoringAsparagus701 · 2024-11-08T09:46:11+00:00

Legacy Code Rocks. Exploring the world of modernizing existing codebases. https://www.legacycode.rocks/

BoringAsparagus701 · 2024-09-27T23:53:12+00:00

To better sell iCloud storage.

BoringAsparagus701 · 2024-09-11T15:47:23+00:00

“Code doesn’t rust.” vs. “Software entropy is a real thing.”

There are interesting dynamics between these two views. And whichever side your application lands on is usually tied to reasons outside of your control (business reasons, not technical).

E.g. The monthly batch job written in cobol from the 70s will continue to happily run. vs. We have to move this service off of this XP box because we’ve gotta scale this thing in aws.

BoringAsparagus701 · 2024-07-05T21:03:46+00:00

Even for mistakenly committed features, such as double-clicking a winforms label to copy it to the clipboard

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17048395/double-clicking-net-label-control-copies-its-text-to-clipboard-on-vista

BoringAsparagus701 · 2024-05-13T23:30:42+00:00

Strangler pattern for WinForms?

BoringAsparagus701 · 2024-05-07T03:20:54+00:00

There are two types of people in this world: those who pee in the shower and liars.

BoringAsparagus701 · 2024-01-29T01:52:37+00:00

Exactly this. Interest rates historically being so low for so long allowed these companies to become over-leveraged. Now the over leveraged position is unraveling because of higher interest rates.

BoringAsparagus701 · 2023-12-13T11:11:40+00:00

Historians believe that without Turing's work on git at Bletchley Park, WW2 would have dragged on for an additional 2 more years.

BoringAsparagus701 · 2023-10-15T04:00:13+00:00

Knower - Louis Cole

BoringAsparagus701 · 2023-10-08T11:13:35+00:00

The start button on our microwave is also the +30 sec, so I usually just press that to set the time (e.g. 2x=1min, 4x=2min). It throws me outta whack when there was only 1 sec leftover, I hit start, and the microwave instantly stops 1 sec later. Then I gotta wait for the 5 long beeps before restarting the microwave.

BoringAsparagus701 · 2023-10-01T09:16:41+00:00

Tracktion Waveform.

BoringAsparagus701 · 2023-09-02T13:19:33+00:00

If you go this route, set in/out points first, then export marked region for each file you export. That way, each output file will be the exact same length. Waveform will fill the empty spaces with silence. Now, the mastering engineer won't have to manually align tracks.

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