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I've had my talk, "When Your Codebase Is Nearly Old Enough To Vote", accepted at Linux Conf Australia in January. Every time I swear I'm going to start developing my talk earlier than "the week before the conference", and this year is no different ...

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With that in mind, are there any particular horror stories people think I should tell? I mean, I have a general outline in my head already, and I'm definitely going to be talking about things like "what happens when you invent something because you need it, then somebody else invents the same thing two years later and that's the version that takes off instead" (*cough* BML *cough*) and the like, but I'd like to tell some funny stories like "that time we wanted to make it possible for people with a default icon to select 'no icon' at the time they post, only to discover that the reason no icon displays when people haven't chosen a default icon was, in fact, due to a twelve-year-old bug" and stuff like that.