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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

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Copying code from Stack Overflow is like handling a wild animal—you gotta be gentle and careful, or it'll bite you. One wrong move and suddenly your entire codebase is riddled with deprecated methods, mysterious global variables, and that one answer from 2012 that definitely doesn't work anymore but has 500 upvotes. The delicate paste operation shown here perfectly captures the anxiety of transplanting someone else's solution into your Python project. Will it work? Will it break everything? Did they even test this? Why are there three different imports for the same thing? These are questions you'll ask yourself while nervously hitting Ctrl+V. Pro tip: Always read the comments below the answer. That's where the real wisdom lives—usually someone pointing out why this solution will destroy your production environment.

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Learning a new programming language is like driving this backwards SUV. You think you're moving forward, but everything is just... wrong. The syntax looks vaguely familiar, yet somehow completely backwards from what you're used to. First week with Rust after 10 years of Python and suddenly I'm fighting with the borrow checker like I'm trying to parallel park this monstrosity. "But this worked in my previous language!" Yeah, and cars are supposed to have their engines in the front, yet here we are.