Facility Services built a lunch order aggregator

“It's only 800 lines.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Allegedly because the source of truth depends on which department you ask. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 11 days ago.

Built by:

Tobias, a team lead

Build time:

5 evenings

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

a CSV called Suppliers_final_final.csv in a shared drive

Authentication:

the audit log is a text file called audit-final.txt

Deployment:

using a self-signed certificate everybody has accepted

Responsible:

Sofia, currently on parental leave

Documentation:

a Miro board that takes 8 minutes to load

Security situation:

it stores passwords, hashed with nothing

Future disaster:

It will import production data into the test environment.

Age: 3.0 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 271 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 accidental connections, alive 156x longer than intended, 29 users.