<story><title>google.com/humans.txt</title><url>http://www.google.com/humans.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GuiA</author><text>i was cofounder at a startup a long time ago, and wrote most of the backend code.&lt;p&gt;i put a humans.txt in there, and updated it every time we had a new employee.&lt;p&gt;then the CEO fired all the best engineers, and I decided to leave shortly after because sometimes in life you gotta let go.&lt;p&gt;the company is still (miraculously) around these days, although all of the original engineers are long gone.&lt;p&gt;the humans.txt is still accessible on their domain as it was on my last day, with all the names of the founding team for the first ~2 years inscribed in there - looks like their newer engineers never stumbled upon it.&lt;p&gt;sometimes when i get nostalgic i like to hit that URL and look at it</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yes_or_gnome</author><text>At a previous job, the equivalent to this was `make babies` which would output the names of all the kids that were born to engineers. The unwritten rule was that you&amp;#x27;d text someone the good news, and then, that person was to add the name to the list and create the commit. That would serve as the birth announcement to engineering.</text></comment>
<story><title>google.com/humans.txt</title><url>http://www.google.com/humans.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GuiA</author><text>i was cofounder at a startup a long time ago, and wrote most of the backend code.&lt;p&gt;i put a humans.txt in there, and updated it every time we had a new employee.&lt;p&gt;then the CEO fired all the best engineers, and I decided to leave shortly after because sometimes in life you gotta let go.&lt;p&gt;the company is still (miraculously) around these days, although all of the original engineers are long gone.&lt;p&gt;the humans.txt is still accessible on their domain as it was on my last day, with all the names of the founding team for the first ~2 years inscribed in there - looks like their newer engineers never stumbled upon it.&lt;p&gt;sometimes when i get nostalgic i like to hit that URL and look at it</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nxzero</author><text>&amp;quot;Legacy Code&amp;quot;</text></comment>