I was at work on Friday and I popped on over to the homepage to go to the log-in screen for the editor.
And I stopped. There was something…off. The page was somehow just a little bit different than it should have been. I couldn’t quite place it, but it was enough.
So, I went down the hall to the boss’s office and asked “Did something change on the homepage today?”
He looked at me, astonished.
“How could you have noticed that?”
Turns out that earlier in the day one of my colleagues had increased the font size of the smallest menu at the top of the page. By 2 point sizes.
That was it. That was the entirety of the change.
The boss pointed out what they had done and was still impressed that I had picked up on it.
I didn’t take computer science in college and I’m not a programmer – but if there was any doubt that I’m a geek, it got dispelled that day.
Alas, there was no prize for being the first to notice it.