I was a student working as a web developer in an on-campus dev shop, and our client was one of the entities on campus. Thus, our incentive was to get a working

I was a student working as a web developer in an on-campus dev shop, and our client was one of the entities on campus. Thus, our incentive was to get a working thing as fast as possible that took as little maintenance as possible. I got bored on the job occasionally, so I'd try experiments on how elegantly I could implement something.