The last 48 hours people were tweeting their tech horror stories in five words. This really made my day… but the scariest thing is: I’ve heard most of this quotes in real life! These are my Top 20 tweets:
1
My nephew creates web sites #fivewordtechhorrors
— Jason Bock (@jasonbock) December 11, 2013
2
“Who wrote this?… Oh. Me.” #FiveWordTechHorrors
— Liz Keogh (@lunivore) December 11, 2013
3
Yup, We Need Another Meeting #FiveWordTechHorrors
— Dion Almaer (@dalmaer) December 11, 2013
Weird. That worked in staging. #fivewordtechhorrors
— beerops (@beerops) December 11, 2013
4
It is only test code. #FiveWordTechHorrors
— Martin Thompson (@mjpt777) December 11, 2013
5
We are switching to PHP #FiveWordTechHorrors
— Viktor Klang (@viktorklang) December 11, 2013
6
“It works on my machine” #FiveWordTechHorrors
— Johanna Rothman (@johannarothman) December 11, 2013
7
“It’s too complicated to test.” #FiveWordTechHorrors
— Andy Hunt (@PragmaticAndy) December 11, 2013
8
We have to support IE6 #FiveWordTechHorrors
— Adam Yuret (@AdamYuret) December 11, 2013
Oracle has acquired Sun Microsystems #FiveWordTechHorrors
— Steve M (@shmick) December 11, 2013
9
The coffee machine is broken #FiveWordTechHorrors
— Arnaud Héritier (@aheritier) December 11, 2013
10
We’re going to use SharePoint. #FiveWordTechHorrors
— Simon Brown (@simonbrown) December 11, 2013
11
We need a Devops team #FiveWordTechHorrors
— Gareth Rushgrove (@garethr) December 11, 2013
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— Andres Almiray (@aalmiray) December 11, 2013
13
It can't be tested yet #FiveWordTechHorrors
— Adam Yuret (@AdamYuret) December 11, 2013
14
Let’s update the stored procedure #FiveWordTechHorrors
— Sam Newman (@samnewman) December 11, 2013
15
Fixed it with global variables #FiveWordTechHorrors
— Seriouspony (@seriouspony) December 11, 2013
16
95% done, you finish it. #FiveWordTechHorrors
— George Dinwiddie (@gdinwiddie) December 11, 2013
17
We can add security later. #fivewordtechhorrors
— James Turnbull (@kartar) December 11, 2013
18
We wrote our own encryption. #fivewordtechhorrors
— J Wynia (@jwynia) December 11, 2013
19
“The original developer left us.” #FiveWordTechHorrors
— Lou Acresti (@louroboros) December 10, 2013
20
git push -f origin master #fivewordtechhorrors
— Jonathan Nicholson (@jonathanichlson) December 9, 2013
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