Ask HN: What's the most unique web app architecture you've seen in the wild?
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https://thedailywtf.com/ collects those stories for 10+ years now.
Mine was when a colleague calculated tomorrow's date with a simple yyyymmdd+1. Checked in Friday before leaving the office, thus the product feature shipped on time. Of course failed on the last day of the month but by then all the launch celebrations were done and it was treated as a small bug. I think he did the right thing on the day, just should've wrote the issue down and fix it quietly the following days.
Mine was when a colleague calculated tomorrow's date with a simple yyyymmdd+1. Checked in Friday before leaving the office, thus the product feature shipped on time. Of course failed on the last day of the month but by then all the launch celebrations were done and it was treated as a small bug. I think he did the right thing on the day, just should've wrote the issue down and fix it quietly the following days.
I'd like to hear about what systems you've built yourself, seen, or heard about that solved an important problem in a simple, unique, or elegant way that took you a long while to arrive at or understand.