Have bricked a windows NT server pluging a printer while the machine was ON => kernel panic and NTFS filesystem was corrupted. Beware the parallel port is not hot-pluggable :)
Editing a game written in BASIC on Amstrad CPC, swapping original author name with mine. Reaching level 9000 of happiness watching my name at the screen. Then playing with C and mode 13h to simulate a an explosion of pixels using for loops. Damn i was 10 and i’ll remember forever.
After Fukushima nuclear accident, France green party shot on French nuclear plants, it was the new cool thing to push for sustainable only energy and bring down our nuclear industry. Newly elected socialist president stared at the green party so he also pushed against. 10 years later we have no plumbers, no welders, old plans, no gas. And more to come : because of Ukraine war and increasing EV, electrical power consumption is anticipated to reach peaks and cause outages. Thats what you get when politicians only consider their popularity, ignoring what experts used to warn.
That's what i keep saying to my children. "You have no idea how difficult a game can be if you haven't wasted weeks as a child, trying to get the black and white car in ridge racer."
Same for me, have driven millions of miles knowing every turn, tips and even exploiting corner cases (over speed after special drift moves). Was 1000% fun.
Keeping the business logic in-database was a major move in my career and a huge source of « well done sentiment ».
My perfect combo today rely on golang as the (thin) API layer, querying data and making CRUD using plsql procedures, enforced by triggers and constaints.