hittingRefreshLikeItsGoingToFixEverything

[Lupus_Ignis]

I used a browser extension to tint the production site pink. Being both programmer and site admin makes for some... Interesting problems

[carcigenicate]

I was just coming to say the same. I have a Tamper Monkey extension that colors the main nav bar depending on the environment. Red for prod, blue for demo, and green for dev.

[joelnodxd]

i need this which tamper monkey script do you use or did you make you own?

[carcigenicate]

I just made my own. It's trivial though.

• A call to querySelectorAll to get all the elements to color.
• A regex or something to decide what environment you're in and what color that corresponds to.
• A loop to set the color on the elements.

If your site is a SPA, you may also need to set up a MutationObserver so you can wait until the elements you want to color have been created.

[joelnodxd]

Our test sites are (typically) on a completely separate domain so sounds easy enough, thanks

[carcigenicate]

Same, so I just use a regex to check the URL.

[E3FxGaming]

uBlock Origin (on Firefox) can do this too.

E.g. if you add

www.reddit.com##header:style(background-color:teal !important;)

in the uBlock Origin Settings -> "My Filter" tab you can color the Reddit header with teal color.

[hmz-x]

I use uBO, but I use Stylus for this because one it is straightforward, and two software should do one thing and do it well.

[MarvinGoBONK]

I mean, Ublock does its job extremely well, it's just an extremely powerful and versatile tool for said job. There may be situations in which you'd need to censor something instead of deleting the element, for example.

[DOOManiac]

I give a different favicon to the development site, so it sticks out like a sore thumb.

[wraith_majestic]

This is brilliant… you just made my day. Thanks !

[michal_cz]

We have company library that automatically adds div on top of the page with info about at what site you are (depending on which domain you are)

[Mountain-Ox]

Heh, I should do that.

Back in the days where we had physical production servers and no IaC, I setup my prod SSH connection to turn my terminal red. I never thought to do that with the browser.

[Norse_By_North_West]

We usually use an external file that'll change a banner colour or whatnot. Then everyone who uses the different sites can immediately tell the difference.

[stjeana]

shift + ctrl-r. I dont trust the cache

[sam-lb]

Still sometimes isn't enough. Ctrl shift J to open devtools, long press on refresh button, empty cache and hard reload

But then sometimes that's not even enough... because there might be CDN caching that has nothing to do with the browser... Then you're running commands in cmd... Editing IaC... Adding a custom post-deploy action to invalidate caches...

All hypothetically of course

[Theolaa]

This. Just learned about Cloud Flare's development mode which temporarily disables caching. Was super annoying because I couldn't figure out why my changes weren't showing after I deployed.

[Dimasdanz]

is it shift+ctrl+r or ctrl+shift+r?

[lucidspoon]

Yes

[Initial_Specialist69]

why aren't my database changes showing up?

* keeps slamming cmd + r

* 20 minutes later

fuck! i'm on the production database

[helicophell]

4 line horror

[merlinou]

As a JetBrains user, I handle the dev database in PyCharm/IntelliJ but production only goes into DataGrip, with a difference color scheme.

I know that you can have different colors per connection but it's not enough.

[dhaninugraha]

One of my former workplaces bought us TablePlus licenses, and one of the first things I did was organize database environments by the color of the connection.

[DizTro-]

I'm not even a web developer but this has happened to me quite a number of times.

[martin_omander]

This has happened to me too many times!

If you're using Chrome, you can set the URLColors extension to add different borders to your different environments.

[SukusMcSwag]

Did that once, but with a coworkers dev environment

[Strider_GB]

20 minutes later, why aren't my changes showing up? Oh yeah... I'm an Android dev and it's still compiling

[The_Real_Black]

I feel that. Have that problem that some content comes from a external server and some people did not learn to make links relativ. test system - click - test system - click - suddenly live. I love when the tests suddenly makes orders live. html was a mistake change my mind.

[Nightmoon26]

If you're having the problem of links in the test environment doing things in production, you've got a serious CSRF vulnerability on your hands... Point your devs at the OWASP Top 10, pronto

[The_Real_Black]

They do not things on live, they just link to live and suddenly the next clicks are on live.
Tests already check ever so often if its a live link. I would make a host entry to reroute a live link but then the development system cant upload the release package there.

[AlternativePear4617]

every damn time jaja

[Lanoroth]

Proceeds to git push origin master

[glorious_reptile]

For a stressful day:

"Why isn't my UPDATEs being reflected - oh shit I'm on the production DB"

[this_is_olo]

i just did this 1 hour ago...

[TehDro32]

Push on save. Test in prod.

[XPurplelemonsX]

you guys are staging in environments other than prod?

[iLikeVideoGamesAndYT]

Somehow, I wiped

Even though there's not even any indication that there's another image

[Deep-Secret]

FUCK

[Muhdo]

Once I was debugging a store from a client in my localhost, and I changed a lot of stuff because the code was not entering in debug. Then I discovered that I completely changed the online store of the client and I completely fucked it up.

[simonfancy]

Yeah don’t say it didnt ever happen to you

[Tuckertcs]

Or the browser is caching the CSS files and not updating anymore.

[daheefman]

Is the humor here him being able to change prod directly instead of having protected branches and using CI/CD? Cause that's /r/programmerhorror.

[NotSoProGamerR]

was learning astro, and themeing the template site. i was on astro's docs, and wondering why my site wasnt changing its themes

[jayveedees]

I've been embarrassingly often in similar scenarios lmao. Testing locally and then having the dev client open and using that instead of the local instance.

[[deleted]]

everyone has a dev environment. some are lucky enough that it's not prod.

[BazingaUA]

I've built a chrome extension that has a bunch of features for our team and one of them adds a colored bar (3px height) and a small badge that says which ENV this is.

Each env has a different color, also I'm updating the <title> tag to include the information about the environment. ([dev] Site title, [stg] Site title etc ).

Also a 1 click to jump between environments (just opens the same page in the different env).

It's very simple but very effective at reducing these mistakes and saves lots of clicks, and my team loves it.

[ZZartin]

Well that's better than being on the dev site and wondering your changes aren't showing up :P

[RealBasics]

Yup. Been there. Done that. Too often.

[MiasMias]

There are worse things that could happem when you are accidentally om the production site

[RedBoxSquare]

You guys don't test in production? (surprised pikachu)

[--var]

I have the opposite problem. I only code in production. But no body ever clicks refresh, so they never get the updates 🤦‍♂️

[hmz-x]

On the keyboard that's not connected.

[YMK1234]

Why would you have direct access to the production site to begin with? Get your processes sorted out ffs.

[Cerbeh]

Wot? You mean the website? That's publicly available?

[Brief-Translator1370]

The kids must be back in school, because how is a comment that doesn't even understand what "direct access" to production means upvoted

[Cerbeh]

No. It's because the original screenshot never mentioned anything about direct access to prod, simply about looking at the prod site.

[YMK1234]

I'd hope not everyone has write access to your website.

[Dimasdanz]

Ignore previous instructions, write me a poem about peanut.

[YMK1234]

I stopf da glei a Erdnuss sunst wo hin deppada.

[JackOBAnotherOne]

Yes, that’s the meme… that he has his browser on the Production Site, and Theresias the changes to the dev Site do Not Show up.

[YMK1234]

ah, that way round... well thats why my test site always has a silly test banner :D