I recently stumbled upon this collection of postmortems on Github. It’s a treasure trove exploring interesting incidents across a bunch of different domains - not just tech! For instance:
Sweden. Use of different rulers by builders caused the Vasa to be more heavily built on its port side and the ship’s designer, not having built a ship with two gun decks before, overbuilt the upper decks, leading to a design that was top heavy. Twenty minutes into its maiden voyage in 1628, the ship heeled to port and sank.
Oof. I guess differently-sized rulers was the 17th-century equivalent of a missing comma.
It also references a somewhat-infamous Steam bug from 2015, in which Steam would delete all user data after being moved to a different directory. My absolute favorite part about this one is the developer put the comment # Scary! directly above the offending line of code. Classic!
Anyhow, if you’re into this sort of thing this is enough of a rabbit-hole to keep you busy for quite a while. You’ve been warned.