---
title: "Computer Magic"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2008/1/22/computer-magic.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2008/1/22/computer-magic.html"
published: "2008-01-22T03:08:55"
updated: "2008-01-22T03:08:55"
tags: ["General Software Devel...", "Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Here's a little trick you can use right now on your fellow developers: Hit Ctrl-Alt-Down Arrow if you're lucky, you'll see magic."
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Computer Magic

By Roy Osherove January 22, 2008 In [General Software Devel...](https://osherove.com/blog/category/general-software-devel), [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published January 22, 2008; technical details may be outdated.

Here's a little trick you can use right now on your fellow developers:

**Hit Ctrl-Alt-Down Arrow**

if you're lucky, you'll see magic.

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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.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [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.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/