A 'driven' software engineer with a passion for cars and tabletop games. Get it, driven? Because cars and... Okay, I'll stick to writing code instead of puns. 🏁
I worked on a very bulky, old UNISYS mainframe that was the Frankensteined back end to some Java and .NET apps. We had test data entries for various things, but with it being a system that dealt with medical data (ICD codes, etc) we sometimes needed ridiculous numbers of complex records to crunch all at once.
One test situation we ran involved a very wide swath of test records. Everything processed except one: it had a field that was somehow breaking other stuff but at least showed "An Ode to Scones cannot parse".
So we pulled it individually, and lo and behold the name is indeed "An Ode to Scones" with an entire recipe stuffed into one field. A screenshot was taken, emails were circulated, and someone fessed up to putting it there decades ago. It was the scone recipe that was used in the cafeteria of a neighboring office building back in the day.
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"An Ode to Scones cannot parse."
I worked on a very bulky, old UNISYS mainframe that was the Frankensteined back end to some Java and .NET apps. We had test data entries for various things, but with it being a system that dealt with medical data (ICD codes, etc) we sometimes needed ridiculous numbers of complex records to crunch all at once.
One test situation we ran involved a very wide swath of test records. Everything processed except one: it had a field that was somehow breaking other stuff but at least showed "An Ode to Scones cannot parse".
So we pulled it individually, and lo and behold the name is indeed "An Ode to Scones" with an entire recipe stuffed into one field. A screenshot was taken, emails were circulated, and someone fessed up to putting it there decades ago. It was the scone recipe that was used in the cafeteria of a neighboring office building back in the day.