---
title: "Please don't spoil it for us"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/15/please-dont-spoil-it-for-us.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/15/please-dont-spoil-it-for-us.html"
published: "2003-05-15T10:40:00"
updated: "2003-05-15T10:40:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Guys. Please don't post any spoilers about the new Matrix. It just ruins it for the rest of us who get to see it only on the 22'nd :( Once you post these things, I just can't help but reading them... c'mon. There's…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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# Please don't spoil it for us

By Roy Osherove May 15, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 15, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Guys. Please don't post any spoilers about the new Matrix. It just ruins it for the rest of us who get to see it only on the 22'nd :(

Once you post these things, I just can't help but reading them... c'mon. There's plenty of info out there for anyone who wants to spoil it for himself, but if I come in to read .NetWeblogs and get a Matrix Spoiler, well, that's just wrong ,isn't it?

## More in Off Topic

[All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

- May 19, 2003

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- May 18, 2003

    ### [When Blogs Go Commercial](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/18/when-blogs-go-commercial.html)

- May 15, 2003

    ### [On another note...](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/15/on-another-note.html)

- May 14, 2003

    ### [About Design](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/14/about-design.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
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