Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn

A developer facing a stubborn Python two-to-three migration took a shortcut that would haunt him eight years later. With twenty percent of systems refusing to cooperate and team morale gutted by layoffs, he created a symbolic link pointing Python three back to Python two. The hack worked perfectly and no one noticed—until the company finally upgraded Linux again and found it still lurking in the code. As the developer told The Register, he expected alarms. Instead, he got eight years of silence and an awkward LinkedIn message.

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