Almost Fired From Apple: A Programmer's Easter Egg Saga

In 1995, the author joined a struggling Apple, becoming a QuickDraw GX graphics engineer. After the project's failure, he was assigned to the ColorSync team to port the 68K-based color picker to the PowerPC architecture. He not only successfully completed the task but also developed extra features like HSV, HTML, and crayon color pickers based on personal preference. However, he included lines from T.S. Eliot's poem as an Easter egg, violating copyright and nearly costing him his job. Ultimately, he was reprimanded but kept his position, and this experience taught him the importance of professional conduct.