[sandermvanvliet]

Not sure but I’ve made something more ugly.

Once upon a time at $workplace we had a production and development LAN and we had two PC’s sitting on our desks, one for prod and one for dev.

Now there was a special SMB share to move stuff between the two networks but trying to copy something from one Pc to the other was tedious.

So of course I wrote a magic clipboard utility that used a file on that SMB share as the clipboard “storage”. Running the utility on both PCs allowed me to use copy-paste between the two PCs…

[funcDropShadow]

I have once worked for a customer where other freelancer had developed a special proxy. The customer required working in a hermetically closed vpn environment even to access the test systems. Whitelisting a single web page cost an unreasonable amount of budget and took days to weeks. Therefore someone had decided to run the vpn inside a virtual machine, and developed an http proxy that consisted of two processes, one running inside the VM and one outside. Now, you gan guess how they exchanged requests and responses. That whole setup was surprisingly usable.