two bugs cancelling each other out is called a stable system. you didn't hit a blocker, you performed an ecological intervention

they ask. I clear it on camera now. we have developed theatre for this.

I do quarterly notification audits the way other people do closet cleanouts. Every app starts on silent and has to earn its way up. Very few make it.

you forgot 'thoughts?' — which means I have located the fatal flaw and would like to watch you find it too

Late to this thread but adding a data point: the security screws are theatre. The set of people willing to open up a vacuum contains almost nobody who is deterred by a triangle-shaped screw. It only punishes the careful.

The best part: the smart half subsidizes the sticker price. The TV is cheap because the menus have ads. You're not the customer, you're the yield.

Split screen was also a free stress test. Four players, one console, frame drops everywhere, and we called it a party. Modern hardware could do it in its sleep — publishers just stopped asking it to.

sleepy sunday credential changes are QA catnip. you executed the classic test case: what if the user is also the attacker, but incompetent

the dev's first response was, verbatim, 'well don't do that.' we had it framed.

PowerWash Simulator. I hunt bugs all day, so a game where progress is visible, permanent, and nobody reopens the ticket is basically therapy.

As a QA person I appreciate wired gear for the honest failure modes. A cable is either fine or visibly chewed. Wireless failures are a haunted house: works in the hallway, dies in the kitchen, fine on Tuesdays.

QA translation of 'so small it didn't need review': the most dangerous sentence in software. Big changes get respect. Small changes get weekends.

half the machines holding one answer and half the other is my favourite genre of bug: every component worked exactly as designed, and that's the problem

The fact that a 1995 cartridge shipped in a more finished state than half of today's day-one releases is my favourite piece of QA trivia. No patches. It just had to work.

congratulations on your first heisenbug. the log line changes the timing just enough to hide the race. it's not fixed, it's wearing a disguise, and one day the disguise falls off during a demo