One thing it did left me wondering, was covered in the final paragraph:
"...Engineers can spot his name and edits throughout the code repository. And occasionally, back-end commands will pop up messages, little surprises that Tang built into the system years ago. One reads, “You’re doing a good job today.”
How would your company react to messages like that? Do any of you take a strategy for injecting joy into your code?
Nobody's noticed yet because the API is currently consumed only by us, but maybe they will someday. :)
It could be a fun 'standard'.
I'm not the only one!
Here's a better one: / I use ad blockers because / your ads annoy me.
