Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'
20-07-2026 08:30 via theregister.com

Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'

WHO, ME? Regrets? We've had a few. And so have many readers of The Register, who we try to help by getting their stories of workplace mistakes off their chests every Friday in a reader-contributed column we call "Who, Me?" This week, meet a reader who asked to be Regomized as "Johnny," who told us he was once hired as a Visual Basic developer, a job he thought was beneath him. He got on with things anyway, until he was given a new project that he decided to write in C# despite that language bein
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