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### 1. Pranks We All Know
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### Pranks We All Know
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Pranks among software engineers aren't new, people often leave their machines unlocked, inviting playful hijinks. Some host a party on the company group chat, and some remap aliases. Mostly done for people to understand the risks and to propagate good security practices. But recently, when I returned from grabbing tea and saw this command executing in my home directory:
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I knew it was going to be a pain to recover from, but I underestimated the pain.
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### 2. The Domino Effect
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### The Domino Effect
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Getting back to work, came my first hurdle.
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Each fix revealed another hurdle, making me think **“I hope I don’t find any more surprises…"**.
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### 3. Sparking Interesting Conversations
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### Sparking Interesting Conversations
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Working in a startup, the news spread fast.
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By the end, teammates who had not thought of these things walked out learning something new.
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### 4. Lessons Learned
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### Lessons Learned
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The pain got worse. Ironically, I had been wanting to version control my dotfiles on GitHub for months, but other priorities kept getting in the way. However, this incident made me look back and think about:
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3.**Investing small efforts upfront to save hours later.**
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### 5. Hope for the Best, Plan for the Worst
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### Hope for the Best, Plan for the Worst
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Unexpected failures are part of software development (and life). When things go sideways or systems break, the difference between chaos and control is preparation. By building redundancy and easy recovery, the disruptions turn into a short detour rather than a full stop.
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