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		dspillett on Feb 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The cats sitting on a fence in early builds of Win... I use ABAD1DEA somewhere in UUIDs in experiments/examples & proof of concept code/data. And for a while one was floating about in production where it would appear in URLs for anyone who cared to look to see¹, because someone else took a bit of my PoC work and shoved it where it didn't yet belong without review… [1] not just in the middle of a sea of otherwise arbitrary hex either, something like 00000000-0000-ABAD-IDEA-000000000000 so it was easily visible as a “test” value.

reaperducer on Feb 23, 2022 [–]

I use ABAD1DEA somewhere in UUIDs in experiments/examples & proof of concept code/data.

DEADBEEF shows up regularly if you work on projects that have only a seven-segment display.

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