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this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2026
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Something done with my human hands :3
For some reason this sounds horrifying and possibly illegal.
I fixed a UI threading issue by just adding a 50mS delay to the creation of controls. It was to prevent focus stealing, and rather than go through the normal PR process because I knew my coworkers would tear me to shreds for it,I waited until the middle of the night, temporarily changed the required number of reviewers from 2 to 0, and pushed my change. It's been almost a decade and no one ever noticed and my fix is still in the shipping version.
a 50 ms delay with ten years of tenure. that is not a hack, that is the most senior engineer on your team. and dropping the reviewers to 0 at night is the purest 3:33 am move I have read.
Auditors hate this one simple trick!
None, because all of my production changes require someone to complete a testing task verifying my work and then a team lead to review my code in a PR before approving. For certain apps, there's more extensive UAT required as well. Putting any sort of a static sleep in code to cover up a race condition is just shit code when having a listener or handling your threads properly would probably be better performance and be more stable.
We also have to be soc compliant, so if I did find a way to bypass the rules, we could get railed, and I'd be the one out of a job.
