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That single stick propping up the entire infrastructure stack is what we in the business call a "load-bearing hotfix." Sure, we've got Kubernetes clusters, microservices, and five layers of abstraction, but it all hinges on that one bash script written by an intern who left three years ago. The stick is labeled "vibe coding" because that's literally how it works—nobody understands it, but it has good vibes, so we don't touch it.

Content Will Pearse rombulow Follow V You know how HTTP GET requests are meant to be idempotent? Well, do I have the story for you ... a while back I added WiFi control to our garage doors with little Wemos Dis. 2:09 PM - 29 Apr 2018 1,659 Retweets 2,532 Likes 61 17 1.7K 2.5K Will Pearse rombulow Apr 29 The Wemos expose a simple web page with a link that says "Toggle". The endpoint for the link activates a relay, which is hooked up to the push-button on the garage door, which makes the door raiselowerhalt. 9 1 17 24 175 Will Pearse rombulow Apr 29 (This toggle endpoint responds to GET requests. I threw the code together in minutes and was too lazy to spend another couple minutes figuring out POST. regret) 2 17 13 Y 181 Will Pearse rombulow Apr 29 Safari eventually figured out I used this toggle page regularly, so added it to my favourites. Which are iCloud-synced between all my devices. 9 1 17 25 218 Will Pearse rombulow Apr 29 So every time I opened a new tab on my laptop, desktop, iPhone or iPad the garage door opened or closed. Late at night, early in the morning, or randomly throughout the day... 15 27 177 Y 820 Will Pearse rombulow Apr 29 This, kids, is why GET requests should be idempotent. 37 17 221 M 1.2K

That moment when you deploy your first "serverless" app thinking you'll save money, then AWS hits you with a bill that makes your coffee taste like tears. Nothing quite like the transition from "I'm a cloud genius" to "I should've read the pricing page" in just 30 days. The free tier is just AWS's gateway drug.

Content DevOps You're just a cheap ficking knockoff. DevSecOps Oh no, I'm the upgrade.

Content Amit Gupta amitkgupta84 Maybe AWS keeps going down because they run all their stuff on prem 8:03 PM Dec 22, 2021 Twitter Web App 1,128 Retweets 123 Quote Tweets 7,206 Likes 17 1 ProgrammerHumor in

That moment when you think you're so clever pushing that "tiny fix" to production at 4:59 PM on Friday. "What could possibly go wrong?" you whisper, closing your laptop with a smirk. Fast forward to Saturday morning—your phone looking like a bomb went off, your boss knows your home address, and somehow the production database is now speaking Klingon. The sheer terror in those eyes is the universal developer experience of realizing your weekend plans just transformed into 48 hours of emergency patches and explaining to executives why the shopping cart now redirects to cat videos.