Sorry there is nothing more to it, he just dropped this nonchalantly in the teams chat and we all had a good laugh about it! That guy is definitely on a list now!
<h2>Explanation</h2>
Orphan:
With orphans he meant child rows in our database that would usually have a parent but the parents were removed without cleanly removing the children as well, which lead to a bunch of orphans being in that db
Playground:
Our development instance for testing.

Fabian Letsch

A developer humorously shared that they cleaned up orphaned database records (child rows without parent references) in a development environment. The post highlights the amusing out-of-context phrasing that made the team laugh, while explaining the technical concept of orphaned rows that result from incomplete deletion operations.

Colleague today: "I wiped all orphans on playground"

So you killed the parents without anyone noticing, and now this?

That reminds me of that time i nuked all the children

What did he wipe them with? A towel?

maybe you want to keep him away from the child processes too! Who knows!