This is now much more difficult to pull off if your workflow involves code reviews and pull requests. I sometimes miss the time when you could sneak in an Easter egg without anyone knowing.
I once wrote a hardware register editor (internal tool) where if you entered a specific register value it changed the icon of the application to the face of my boss.
In every system I’ve ever worked on, if it exposed a command line interface, typing
xyzzywould result in the responseNothing happens.Nice! I had to look up the Colossal Cave reference but that’s pretty neat.
I don’t add Easter eggs but I will use the Luther Blissett collective pseudonym in comments and documentation.
One part of me wished I did but the other one understands that it’s not really professional to do that in commercial projects.
In my passion projects I go wild with the debug log banter but that’s where my bravado ends.