Shit Happens

alphacyberranger@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev – 1029 points –
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Troubleshooting checklist:

  1. DNS
  2. Fuck if I know

Or as I’ve discovered recently while troubleshooting local infrastructure, the ARP table. Essentially the DNS of IP addressing

People: "Please get this thing to work, my work/life depends on it!"
Me: "There are people whose work/life depend on my jank code/website?"

Their life depends on it until it’s lunchtime. Then it doesn’t matter anymore. But woe to you if it’s not fixed when they’re back!

Frontend developer: Listen I make pretty websites. This is a backend problem

Backend developer: the buttons disappear only on smaller screens - looks like a frontend problem.

If you work somewhere that actually makes money it's very much like the first.

Can confirm. Sauce: Posting from my instance, it was down yesterday.

So I wanna a report on performance.

Sir this is one endpoint with no batch capabilities of which I have no access to change. There is no “performance”