Quality Assurance built a coffee machine incident tracker

“Claude can fix it if it breaks.”— Katrin, Quality Assurance

Reason:

Allegedly because the integration has been "temporarily disabled" for 5 months. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 11 days ago.

Built by:

Katrin, an intern

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Google Apps Script holding together three departments

Database:

UUIDs stored as VARCHAR(255), just in case

Authentication:

the production token is in Slack

Deployment:

deployed by dragging files into an FTP client

Responsible:

an agency acquired by another agency

Documentation:

an Excel tab called Instructions

Security situation:

the encryption key is in the source code

Future disaster:

It will get monitoring after the first outage.

Age: 4.1 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 1061 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 108x longer than intended, nobody owns it, the builder has left.