The Management Assistant built a compliance checklist with checkboxes and no checks

“The password changes every year.”— Daniel, The Management Assistant

Reason:

Allegedly because the official form has 45 fields and not the one that matters. With 102 users and 31 feature requests.

Built by:

Daniel, a controller

Build time:

4 hours 57 minutes

Built with:

Svelte, which nobody else here writes

Database:

a second Postgres called main, for safety

Authentication:

the tenant ID is a query parameter

Deployment:

deployed to staging, which customers are now using

Responsible:

the business

Documentation:

a 86 minute screen recording

Security situation:

the temporary firewall rule is 14 months old

Future disaster:

It will delete records older than 245 days, including the important ones.

Age: 2.1 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 13x longer than intended, 17% chance of becoming business critical, 1 departments depend on it.