Duct Tape and Bailing Wire

Tim Wood on Mastodon:

OK, OK, ok, story time. Way back when (early 90s), when Omni was consulting for McCaw Cellular (or AT&T Wireless, not sure which it was at the time), we were working on apps for NeXTSTEP for sales, customer care, and such for cell phones, nation wide. We'd occasionally get a crash reports and I don't even remember how those got back to us back in the day before automated collection and reporting, but eventually we were able to reproduce it.

OK, OK, ok, story time.

Way back when (early 90s), when Omni was consulting for McCaw Cellular (or AT&T Wireless, not sure which it was at the time), we were working on apps for NeXTSTEP for sales, customer care, and such for cell phones, nation wide. We'd occasionally get a crash reports and I don't even remember how those got back to us back in the day before automated collection and reporting, but eventually we were able to reproduce it.

I won't spoil the punchline as there's only two paragraphs remaining, so go treat yourself.