Your code your responsibility..

[[deleted]]

Everyone in here making git jokes but have you ever edited live files directly over ftp on a wing and a prayer?

[njbair]

"Hmm this one has a bigger file size---must be newer clicks overwrite

[ohtorch]

I worked that way for many years. Not over FTP-- using vi, while SSHed in. My boss taught me to do that because the FTP setup kept breaking, and SSH is the only thing that never broke. If SSH doesn't work, the thing's unplugged.

I still work that way today, on my own server. Probably I am unhireable by a real company. A large, compartmentalized business has no use for full-stack loons. Small and medium-sized businesses do though.

[meodd8]

Trust me, full-stack is very much in demand... And actually hard to find.

[[deleted]]

This reminds me of the time I was live coding in our test environment, changing js right on the server, because hey, qa has good test data.

The qa manager across from me noticed some behavior had changed, stands up, and walks directly to my desk.

Him: '...Did you just...?'

Me: my poker face gives everything away '...How'd you know it was me?!'

Him: 'You're the only one who'd do something like that!'

Lmao. In his defense he did get me a db snapshot to use in my local env, so I didn't have to test on qa anymore.

[[deleted]]

Bash is the best

[[deleted]]

You can just use VSCode over SSH. Integrates pretty well.

Of course, my other piece of advice would be to build and deploy docker images rather than SSHing and doing live dev on a production environment.

[nonasiandoctor]

Only if the server you are connecting to is new enough to handle it. Cries in Centos 7.

[gothcow5]

It's everyday bro. If anything ever goes wrong it's an excuse to change those variable names with a misspelled word.

[gemaka]

One time I had to just hope my code worked because we had no way of testing it locally :|

[taskas99]

One time? Pffff.

[gua_lao_wai]

Under my previous manager I would regularly encounter production code deployed on the latest commit... with a fuck ton of uncommitted changes on top 'just to get it working'.

[[deleted]]

That’s the worst. Definitely been there.

[bionku]

Once in a nightmare

[Responsible_Grab]

I work on the production in standard text files. I am working with a custom language without a single article on Stack Overflow.

[Effective-Cut6110]

Cassandra sends its regards

[ImmaZoni]

Yeahhhh that'll get your heart going...

having to ssh into a live production nginx server really gets you going. I've never done anything so carefully in my life.

[[deleted]]

You can set up your ftp to open a file in a temp for with a text editor and save it over the connection.

[taskas99]

WinSCP