The Monument to Stupidity is a place to share your mistakes and revel in their humanity. Sometimes we mess up and that's OK. Share your stories with us completely anonymously and join us in celebrating our ongoing stupidity.
2025-05-14
I have to stop merging quick fixes without running the tests. It's so embarrassing. Tbf my tech lead did the same thing yesterday, but I did suggest the change so it's still partly my fault :'¬(
2025-05-02
Had a work team dinner at Dishoom. Started with a spicy margarita before everything got exponentially hotter leading to a very sweaty evening. I barely made it back home alive. This morning I was fit to explode, which I did multiple times both at home and in the office. I'm having leftovers for supper. Wish me luck.
2025-04-09
Embarked on a 2h30m train journey without snacks. The only provisions with me are the Percy Pigs I bought as a gift.
2025-03-27
I deleted the monument. Thank the lord I had a local copy I was using for development. Almost every post is back up now, though it says they were all uploaded today :| You can't take this place down that easy, me! Edit 2024-03-28: I got the dates back!
2025-03-27
Hi, I'm stupid. I was wearing some concert trousers before the concert and tripped a couple of times (but in a lowkey way) and didn't think much of it. Fast forward to after the concert and I trip up the stairs, bashing my cello, knee and ego in the process. That same evening, just an hour later, my housemate fell down the stairs at a bar in Cardiff (she was wearing stilettos and was drunk though. I have no excuse).
2025-02-09
Forgot it was Sunday and the shops close early. Going to have head out to get bread before breakfast tomorrow morning :(
2025-01-08
Leant on a knob on the hob of my new digs while cooking pasta and the gas cut out immediately. Couldn't figure out how to turn it back on so let my pasta sit in the hot water till it was cooked through. Never do that – it was the most stodgy glue I've ever had the misfortune of putting into my mouth.
2025-01-08
Created this website without any spam protection. Scammers have posted twice now (pretty lame tbh) so will probably have to add an moderation process at some point. Watch this space for when I say I put that off too long ;)
2024-10-16
Pushed a last minute refactor. Did not test. MR approved and merged. 2 minutes later I opened a hotfix MR for a logic error in that refactor. Everyone's gone home. That's tomorrow's problem.
2024-05-13
woke up at 5:30 a.m. to go fishing. Put everything in truck. Drove to lake. Fished for four hours. Came back to truck. Opened covered truck bed. Discovered cat stowed away. He had jumped in before we left without us noticing. Lucky we found him!