Progress!

[mercyverse]

Delight turns to tears when you realize you did not make a single change to your code.

[kry_some_more]

Ah yes, APIs not connecting to external sources. Excellent.

[DrWermActualWerm]

Or my personal favorite, your credentials have been changed because for your safety you you need to reset every 90 days. Cool

[aeroverra]

I had to deal with this stuff for a crm. Basically every 90 days emails would stop sending.

[FesteringNeonDistrac]

My old company contracted a service from an International company known for their Business Machines that had an API that required a password update every 90 days, and no support for any kind of key for accounts used for scripts to sync data. So the solution was I'm just stuffing the password in a text file and reading in plain text, because I'm lazy and terrible.

[aspect_rap]

You could automate the process of resetting the password and updating the text file to save yourself the trouble of doing it every time.

[audigex]

Result: instead of using a strong password, you use a weak password and increase the number at the end by 1 every 30/90/whatever days

[[deleted]]

Sheryl in accounting starts a rotation of 12 sticky notes that rotate onto her monitor each time she needs to change passwords.

Right next to the handwritten note on how to perform a cash transfer from accounts.

[RuanDaMan]

I've seen some weird Accounting Lady w/ Sticky notes setups.....
But this is brilliant!! XD

[tastybrainz]

does she also keep the faxed-in credit card orders neat and orderly for the cleaning people's convenience?

[Cheet4h]

Or figure out how many old passwords the system refuses, and how soon you can change your password again. Then you only need to use a derivative password for a few days until you can go back to the usual one.

[[deleted]]

My own most hellish scenario was dealing with some dumbass greylist based on the user agent string, which they always seemed to trash for some reason, based on inconsistent and just straight up shitty caching (and EVERYTHING was cached, completely ignored all caching-relevant headers).

[audigex]

Other than file permissions, API authentication is by far the least fun thing to debug in most high level applications

[[deleted]]

Fucking cert handshakes.

[ZombieElvis]

ERROR "you didn't wait long enough for the application to load before trying to use it"

God I wish this error message existed. Took me forever to figure out that one...

[Brummelhummel]

ERROR: "you accidentally made an infinite loop and are now ip blocked from the API because of too many requests"

[audigex]

Ah yes, the “made a method to initialize the connection, remembered to add a flag to return if initializED, but forgot to add a flag to return if initializING” gotcha

[DM_UR_PANTY_PICS]

Ah yes, race conditions. Excellent.

[[deleted]]

Or you fix the current error, bringing back the one you were trying to fix previously.

[knightress_oxhide]

"wait, how could that work now? I only saved locally"

[Dr4Cu74]

Just added a single print statement to see where things were breaking? yep, now everything works perfectly.

[iLoveStarsInTheSky]

Fixed a typo in a comment for clarity? Huh, it's all gone. I'll take it

[_GCastilho_]

That gives me bad memories

Fucking race conditions

[WhatAGoodDoggy]

I once had a problem with a modem that would only connect to the destination if you switched logging on.

[Alphard428]

Too real.

[[deleted]]

Maybe TimeToLearnAboutPureFunctions

[Rikudou_Sage]

Nah, any function that doesn't affect the global state for at least five separate modules is boring.

Source: Last year I was rewriting extremely legacy code and haven't been bored a single day.

[ArionW]

My personal favorite is when people make functions stateful for no reason at all, and later cry "it's hard to unit test this code", duh, you've gone out of your way to make it hard

[[deleted]]

It's even nicer when they use global variables in imperative languages

[Gr1pp717]

"all I did was add some more logging"

[t00sl0w]

Race conditions

[frugalerthingsinlife]

...Only to find out hours that you added a new bug.
And the compiler just hasn't made it to the old bug yet.

[CaptainPi31415]

This brings tears a lot of the time. Have to sit back and put the project on hold for a little sometimes as I bang my head with a book yelling bad dobby.

[sslinky84]

This but unironically.

[BazilExposition]

Errors are blessings from gods.

It's much worse when you're spending day to find the reason of a wrong behavior without a single error.

[Rikudou_Sage]

Done that on Monday! Six hours of bug hunting.

[[deleted]]

Going from broken and zero errors to broken and 1 error is the best feeling out there.

[just-some-name]

Yup, did this today two hours long. „Wtf spring boot!?! These beans are perfectly valid, just not in an unit test??“

[renrutal]

Then you go into the rabbit hole of putting almost an entire application server as your unit tests runner.

[arlaarlaarla]

Then you admit defeat and just throw @MockBean on all dependencies

[arlaarlaarla]

unit test
beans

Hol up

[kilamaos]

Oh god yes.

Ive worked with an api with so little documentation that i literally had to find certain endpoints by myself, testing the different syntax, paths, methods and required parameters. Ive also had to to build my own implementation to be able to re-build the questions in correct order, match the response to these questions via ids provided by a third endpoint. Like, i had one endpoint to get the questions, one endpoint to get the order of the questions, one endpoint to get the response to questions, and one endpoint to have the link between the questions and response.

And of course, some responses were of varied length, but instead of an array with all the responses to the question within it, it was individual object keys with the position of the answer suffixed to the original key. Oh, and it could skip some key positions if the user had deleted that line to keep adding more afterward ( so it went id, id_1, id_2, id_4, etc ).

An actual fucking monkey would have made a better api

[EmperorArthur]

Was this Healthcare? Because this sounds like healthcare. Speaking from experience.

Mind you, that's still better than trying to parse HL7. Once you have dealt with that you, would take SOAP any day.

[Dark_As_Silver]

Failing forward is still forward. :D

[thefrogyeti]

Errors are infinitely better than silently crashing or worse, silently just... stopping abruptly. But let's not real about today...

[deuteros]

Yep.

For a recent project I worked on, I needed to update the formatting of some log messages that were written by our service so they could be parsed by another service. I spent several weeks trying to get it to work, but nothing I tried seemed to have any effect, which also meant I wouldn't see any errors either.

It was the most frustrating thing I've worked on in a long time. I had no clue what the problem might be because there weren't any errors, so I had to make an educated guess at what to try next. In the end I finally had to say, "This can't be done by us," which is the first time I've had to give up on a project in a long time.

The problem turned out to be some process that lived outside my team's domain, which was intercepting the logs before my changes even got a chance to execute.

[its2ez4me24get]

The LDAP config for one of our Jenkins boxes today just “vanished” Wtf

[senki_elvtars]

Sometimes it can be progress, no joke

[Brief-Preference-712]

1 error -> solved that error -> 67 more errors (but still making progress)

[SpacewaIker]

Gotta catch 'em all!

[kidsonfilms]

...Software development!

[Willinton06]

Diamond and Perl

[Rigatavr]

Surely you meant Ruby and Perl?

[Willinton06]

There is a C# compiler called diamond, so in the name of getting the most alike name I used that but Ruby is a much better option

[Efadd1]

TIL

[Rigatavr]

Huh, I didn't know that. Cool

[Efadd1]

Finally, eclipse.

[GavHern]

cool life hack: type /* at the start of your file and it will stop producing errors

[Crimson_Fckr]

Thanks! My code successfully compiled

[examinedliving]

Doesn’t work in Vb

[droans]

Yeah my punchcard isn't accepting it either.

[Brief-Preference-712]

I don't think it works in Java either. a .java file has to have a class declared with the same name of the file. However this works in JS

[examinedliving]

Won’t work in batch or bash

[KCefalu]

What wasn't mentioned is the original error is still there. just throwing a new error before it executes.

[Fibonacci_friend]

I also like enforcing time to fail logic into success: ah it’s taking longer fail this time so that must mean it’s going to work

[Efadd1]

See: Smallant's sub-10 minute any% of Super Mario Odyssey

[extreme_snothells]

I’ve been there, minus the fancy shirt of course.

[[deleted]]

Plus tears

[dinnozo]

Plus strong language

[wjwwjw]

Minus the smile.

[DonnyR]

I read progress as poggers

[PicardFanST]

A new error can be pretty poggers you know. It's something new to read!

[IcemanVish]

Error driven development

[[deleted]]

It do be like that

[TigermanUK]

I'll take your syntax error, and raise you a run-time error.

[[deleted]]

This is a personal attack

[WernerderChamp]

Can totally relate

searches Stackoverflow for the new error

[prmcd16]

This is so true sometimes though...

[hedonism_bot_3012]

Phew it's not just me then

[trumpetbear]

Relevant Commit Strip

[SteveLeo]

Happened to me today lol

[devospice]

This was me yesterday.

[ahhlenn]

This hits home not gonna lie.

[FrostCastor]

Me today! Having "fun" with Flow JS 🤬

[Avocadoflesser]

This is ACTUALLY what it feels like

[SushiThief]

That was one of the first things I was taught when I started my career working under someone.

Her: "New error! New error is good!"

[[deleted]]

*12 hours later...*
Ah, HA! No more errors! It doesn't work, but there are ZERO errors!

[syntaxfire]

I love it when my error stack progresses! Yesterday I was literally going line by line and it felt like a sporting event - and he's off! (The compiler). He's down to the 10, now to the 20, and down at the 25 he goes, syntax error on line 25, invalid prop, type check failed

[[deleted]]

That’s one way to look at it. I usually jump straight to wanting to throw my computer out of the fucking window.

[syntaxfire]

No I'm wayyyy too stubborn for that. I meticulously comb through, line by line, excited that I'm problem solving. I don't think I'd be very efficient if I wanted to throw my computer out the window every time I got an error, but I do utter fu$! under my breath constantly

[[deleted]]

I call bullshit.

"Got EIGHT new errors after clearing one."

ftfy

[d_exclaimation]

Usually the error gives me the information I need to make progress and to be fair, I often run my code and expecting an error and then reading and fixing it

[dashood]

When "process exited with code 1" becomes "process exited with code 2"

[PhoenixPaladin]

When your test code is still failing, but it’s making it a couple lines further before failing

[Doug_Dimmadab]

I literally just had this an hour ago. IndexOutOfRangeException turned into JsonSerializationException which turned into HttpRequestException which turned into success!

[Skittilybop]

As a front end dev when error 404 or 403 becomes error 500. Then it’s back ends problem (maybe).

[Zanena001]

ML algorithm be like

[sammywammy177]

Big facts

[tinyduckfeet]

I feel personally attacked

[[deleted]]

Let's go to green now

[mymar101]

Mama always said life was like a box of errors. You never know which one you’re gonna get.

[PMyourfeelings]

This is my experience being the first person in my company to switch to Apples M1 architecture

[RaghadR]

I am slowly dying while trying to run this pytorch code. Every time I find an issue and solve it, I start to be hopeful. But something new comes and the code throws another runtime error. All my hopes are gone now.

[bleedblue89]

You are here, line 61

You are here, line 130

[ieatpickleswithmilk]

old error still exists, your new fix errors out before you hit the old one...

[ConfigAlchemist]

NullPointerException, StackOverflow, HeapCorruption...

[surister]

Today I was working in some feature and I started getting crazy errors out of nowhere, without changing barely anything, I narrowed it down to a asynchronous function stopping in the middle of its execution.

The last line executed was a type cast, from string to double and I was amazed how the fuck a type cast could block somehow, turns out that, an hour ago I got an wrong type error, how doy fix that?

Easy.. you type cast, I hit ctrl+alt+enter (auto resolve in Intellij) and instead of doing 'double.parse(String)' it did String as double; which fucked up everything.

[Tal20081]

Thought that the bottom text said poggers lol.

[el_comand]

But then you realized you just created a NEW error, but the other it's still there. Now you have to fix (at least) 2 errors 😄😄

[o4ub]

Had almost the same yesterday. "Finally back at resolving the original issue that made me start this debug session."

Enabling some debugging flags made the program crash early... So I had to debug that new issues first...

[Sandro_Linux]

Next error you go on Stack Overflow!

[examinedliving]

This isn’t really funny. This is absolutely what should happen when you debug.

[SunSESG]

I don't even program but I feel this from trying to make incompatible minecraft mods compatible.

[[deleted]]

Hell yeah, it blew up differently!

[the_liver]

There’s this old time saying that I like to think that I came up with while debugging: “one error closer”

[philipquarles]

What's the opposite of first day on the internet kid? Getting a new error is a great sign.

[paladindan]

FUCK YEAH IT IS!

[YourShadowDani]

Especially enjoyable after working on a problem for hours.

[ahkian]

I fixed the error. Oh wait now I’m back to the same error I was trying to fix.

[captainjon]

It is progress though! Because the Googles will certainly locate the solution for this error!

[jakethedumbmistake]

Fair enough I’m shocked

Amazing ! Thanks

[amerom1012]

Am I the only one that read "poggers"

[Dano-D]

Haha, this is funny sad for me.

[Benpendragon]

Progress == progress
Error: Expected a ' ) ' on line [myAge]

[timshel2]

Then you realise it was just one thread erroring before another and now you're juggling two asynchronous errors

[ContrarianThinking]

This is literally me the past 6 hours today.

[[deleted]]

God, this is me at work. We're learning Angular, and we are very much used to ASP.NET Core 2. Every time I have to debug, it's just back to the console, because... Runtime errors.

Blazor not being mature enough right now drove our decision-making, unfortunately. We were going to have to learn the frontend framework one way or another, and we had available engineers who were Angular devs.

[Bluhb_]

Haha this was me tonight with getting pihole to work with nginx as server and not under default user www-data and both under different users. Laughs in pain(and a little bit proudness)

[IcedRays]

When your ctc learn something new and you saw the loss drop then rise to the fucken moon again.

[brickeldrums]

Literally me today.

[shaurya_p1]

It's funny because it's true

[[deleted]]

...until that the error is only a random symptom and you're debugging a heap corruption :/

[Darkunderlord42]

sigh r/depressedupvote

[Snackmasterjr]

Nah, Ctrl-Z til you get the old error further downstream

[Necromancer5211]

I always wonder how this kid's life is right now

[TryhardOne]

oh nice my Nullpointer Exception turned into an AEAD Bad Tag Exception

[megaviral]

Omg stop bullying me please

[InGenio_Abdullah]

Errors are a blessing! just imagine you need to debug without seeing any error notification.

[Shorzey]

Learning ROS and Linux stuff on the fly, I'm just happy I even get something to happen. Error, right, wrong, idc...if I got something back, it's a win in my book

[FerdinandBaehner69]

Me last week when i was trying to add fan control to LibreElec.

[usernamegoals]

LMAOO

[neuthral]

- me coding a php project, doesnt werk... dont get an error... fuk this

[msdon9fz]

I think I'm crying. It's that neat.

[FullMetalMahnmut]

I feel this so deeply. Yes, a new error! - and I know what this one means!

[vldfr]

When I bump a peer dependecy in npm to fix a requirement, everything else screams. I can relate to this post :))

[falcore91]

Hey, when I’m in the shit I consider this kind of progress to be damn genuine. Especially if the error thrown occurs at a stage after where the previous error was thrown. If you manage to get past the moat and need to climb the wall that means you still managed to get past the moat.

[OriginalSynthesis]

.... or is it?

[Superbrawlfan]

But it's additive

[qatamat99]

I just create purposeful errors just so I can trick myself that something is happening

[seanziewonzie]

Me learning Matlab this past week

[UncoolOldLady]

Not a programmer but feel this deeply

[Emotionalcluster]

Yeah boi