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i was cofounder at a startup a long time ago, and wrote most of the backend code. i put a humans.txt in there, and updated it every time we had a new employee.
by GuiA 11y ago
i was cofounder at a startup a long time ago, and wrote most of the backend code.
i put a humans.txt in there, and updated it every time we had a new employee.
then the CEO fired all the best engineers, and I decided to leave shortly after because sometimes in life you gotta let go.
the company is still (miraculously) around these days, although all of the original engineers are long gone.
the humans.txt is still accessible on their domain as it was on my last day, with all the names of the founding team for the first ~2 years inscribed in there - looks like their newer engineers never stumbled upon it.
sometimes when i get nostalgic i like to hit that URL and look at it
- trump2016chalk 11y agoI think that the fact they haven't found it is a statement about the new team as well and what their priorities are... Or aren't
- nxzero 11y ago"Legacy Code"
- toomuchtodo 11y agoRight in the feels.
- stuxnet79 11y agoIs it really that easy to miss an errant text file in the site directory? I'm so meticulous when it comes to code that you couldn't possibly get that past me.
- breischl 11y agoCould be they found it but just never changed it. Maybe they thought it was amusing, or just didn't want to deal with it in code review.
- rconti 11y agoI suppose it depends on what all they do. Maybe their website is not their main product. Maybe they have thousands of sites. Who knows.
- yes_or_gnome 11y agoAt a previous job, the equivalent to this was `make babies` which would output the names of all the kids that were born to engineers. The unwritten rule was that you'd text someone the good news, and then, that person was to add the name to the list and create the commit. That would serve as the birth announcement to engineering.
- alexandrerond 11y agoFrom my own experience: probably no one cared to touch that server because no one knows what apache foo is running on it and they had better things to do than to worry about what the long time ago guys left there as long as no one complains.