So today I discovered that there’s a cron job that holds non-reproducible state that died, and now our system is fucked.
The cron job doesn’t live inside any source control. This morning it entered a terminal state, and because it overwrites its state there’s no way to revert it.
I’m currently waiting for the database rollback and have rewritten it in a reproducible/idempotent way.
What’s extra frustrating is the previous guy did create a git repo of these types of hacks, but this one doesn’t live in it for no discernible reason.
Job security
He does charge a consulting fee to “fix” these issues
Almost all of them are dumb shit like this, where something is built in super hacky and dumbass ways.
It’s his kill switch and he forgot to check in.
Smart man. This is how we fight being replaced by AI.
Judgement day postponed indefinitely due to “Object reference not set to an instance of an object”
I don’t know why but this is the first time I read this phrase and it actually makes sense.
I knew exactly what it meant before, but it didn’t make sense until now
Super hacky and dumb? Sign me up 😂
Me running all my services in tmux
that might be a stupid question, but why would you running all services in tmux be a bad idea? a co-worker of mine is doing exactly that right now, which is why I’m asking.
It’s not horrible, like it’ll do the job just fine, it’s just probably a better idea to use systemd and like, containers and whatnot, but I couldn’t be arsed to fiddle with all that for Jellyfin, caddy reverse proxy, and two modded Minecraft servers, so shell scripts and tmux won the day. It takes a little extra time to restart everything after an update, and maybe I’ll get the motivation to do things “correctly™” one day, but today is not that day.
thank you very much for the detailed response :)
Use the tmux resurrect plugin. It will restore your tmux session to its previous state after a restart, including programs if you like.
You can put off doing things “correctly™” even longer.
The “here’s how you keep doing this poorly but more efficiently” energy on display here is a refreshing change of pace from the usual “here’s how you do this correctly” crap peddled by normies (including me). You have my respect.
Lmao
But the whole point of the doomsday machine is lost… if you keep it a secret! Why didn’t you tell the world, eh?
It was going to be announced at his retirement party on Monday… You know the dev likes surprises.
And a kbase with no entry for it.