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.

  • wise_pancake@lemmy.caOP
    111·
    3 days ago

    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.

      • Agent641@lemmy.world
        18·
        2 days ago

        Judgement day postponed indefinitely due to “Object reference not set to an instance of an object”

        • kiagam@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 days ago

          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

        • Sherry@programming.dev
          3·
          2 days ago

          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.

          • swab148@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            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.