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.

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[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 168 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 141 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Job security

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 117 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 103 points 1 year ago

It’s his kill switch and he forgot to check in.

[–] peregrin5@lemm.ee 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Smart man. This is how we fight being replaced by AI.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] kiagam@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months 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

[–] Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Super hacky and dumb? Sign me up 😂

[–] swab148@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Me running all my services in tmux

[–] Sherry@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.ee 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] whats_all_this_then@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

If you're going to do something wrong, do it wrong right.

[–] Sherry@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

thank you very much for the detailed response :)

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They're all gone when you restart
It doesn't properly deal with logging
You can't set up dependencies between services but that doesn't matter due to point 1

I recommend using systemd services and/or docker compose instead. systemd services are files that describe which program / script to run and when (like after networking is active or after a certain other service is loaded).

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Lmao

[–] koper@feddit.nl 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But the whole point of the doomsday machine is lost... if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world, eh?

[–] MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

It was going to be announced at his retirement party on Monday... You know the dev likes surprises.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

And a kbase with no entry for it.