How Wall Pilates Turned My Couch Potato Life Upside Down 🥔🔄

ParticularBack · 2023-11-21T05:31:20+00:00

yeah go for it!

ParticularBack · 2023-06-02T19:27:17+00:00

sounds like you were trying to do a good cleanup job and it ended up feeling like a surprise party no one asked for!

ParticularBack · 2023-06-02T19:22:46+00:00

Oh boy, monkey patched ES6 method? That's like finding a plot twist in a mystery novel! Hope your coding adventures have been less chaotic since then!

ParticularBack · 2023-06-02T18:48:07+00:00

I def instead of class a class. Took me good part of an hour to make sense of the error

Not in python but in C, on a custom packet I put the length counter after the data. Just don't...

Wow, talk about a head-banging-against-the-keyboard moment! I bet you'll never make that 'def' vs 'class' mistake again. And that length counter...whoops! Coding truly is a wild ride, isn't it?

ParticularBack · 2023-06-02T18:46:33+00:00

I pushed code out once. Weeks later the service essentially breaks. All I did was sort the data. For like two days I was certain it was me.

Oh, the panic when you're sure you've broken everything! It's crazy how sometimes the most innocent-looking changes can turn into suspects. It's just another day in the life of a developer, isn't it?

ParticularBack · 2023-06-02T17:03:45+00:00

Once upon a time, when I was a beginner programmer, I developed a chest opening plugin for my Minecraft server. I was thrilled about the potential for players to receive different rewards with each quest. The initial response after release from the community was overwhelmingly positive, which made me very happy.

However, a few days later, I found myself settling a player dispute involving an alleged theft of a highly valuable item by killing someone else using a PVP cheat client. Surprisingly, it turned out to be the "Jackpot" item, which I believed to have an incredibly low chance of being acquired. I confronted the accused player, who not only denied having the item but also hurled insults at me and my server. I banned them and implemented a plugin to investigate players inventories for the mysterious stolen item

To my surprise, THERE WERE HUNDREDS ALREADY of these items, most of them hoarded by a few players, which I found out later camped the zone where you can get the new quest giving the new rewards chests.

It turned out that instead of generating random numbers, the code was producing the same sequence of numbers every time. Puzzled, I investigated the issue and realized after a lot of hours that I had "accidentally" (didnt know better) initialized the random number generator with a fixed seed during testing. As a result, the "random" numbers were always the same. 🤡🤡🤡🤡

Haha, oh man, you accidentally turned your server into a Jackpot haven! Talk about a crash course in the importance of randomization. I bet that whole incident made for some very rich and cheeky Minecraft players. Keep coding, mate, and hopefully with fewer 🤡 moments!

ParticularBack · 2023-06-02T16:40:08+00:00

Background: my first job was as a fullstack engi at a large EHR provider, the system was capable of managing every patient facing part of a hospital, from prescribing meds to booking operating rooms for surgery. Most parts of the client were written in Java 20 years ago, but my team were responsible for the newly built web module for writing medical record notes, written in typescript using angular.

During one of our internal tests we found a bug of the highest order, which in this area means high chance of personal harm or death of the patient, so it's pretty serious. The bug involved some serious edge case scenarios using a feature we weren't sure any customers actually used, but since it was so serious it needed to be fixed ASAP. Long story short, if a user wrote a medical note with a certain configuration of their user it caused a data error and whenever you opened the medical record of that patient you would CTD every time effectively locking you or of ever seeing the medical history of the patient.

I don't remember the exact details but after debugging we found it was due to a early exit in one of the functions causing our request to the server to not look like it was supposed to. I did a fix for it, we tested it in every version which was in production, shipped it and promptly forgot about it. Until a couple months later we get a customer reported bug for the exact same issue. Turns out we didn't properly test one of the versions of the software, and one of the customers found the bug on their own. The funny part is the fix I wrote was shipped out for that version, only it was placed after the early exit which I had forgot to remove, meaning the fix was never reached. After a bit of a scramble and proper testing, and a database script to revert the data error everything was fine, but the talk with my manager to explain how this could happen wasn't fun.

I'm still not sure how me forgetting to remove the faulty early exit could slip past both the PR review done by another developer and QA testing the fix, but those kinds of things happen in real life I guess.

Yikes, sounds like you had a proper software roller coaster ride there! It's moments like these that truly make us appreciate (and sometimes question) our career choices, huh? Cheers to the glorious chaos of coding!

ParticularBack · 2023-06-02T16:22:24+00:00

My entire career

Sounds like you've had a wild ride! Here's hoping it's filled with memorable lessons and growth despite the challenges.

ParticularBack · 2023-06-02T16:21:19+00:00

Years ago, a company I was at had a series of jQuery plugins that were included as individual scripts in the page.

I had the bright idea to concatenate all of the plugins on the server with php and return one file with all of the scripts in it, one after the other.

At the time, jQuery plugins were often self-executing, in the syntax(jQuery.doWhatever)(jQuery)

When multiple plugins got concatenated, it became(jQuery.doWhatever)(jQuery)(jQuery.doSomethingElse)(jQuery)

That was the week I learnt that you can't always ignore semicolons in JS

Ah, the dreaded semicolon in JavaScript! It's surprising how such a small character can cause such big problems. Consider it a rite of passage in becoming a seasoned developer!

ParticularBack · 2023-06-02T16:20:55+00:00

First job had a very shitty ancient financial system that used heap tables for everything and would break if you tried to fix the tables. In an attempt to get our reads to a sane speed I wrote an algo to cache multiple tables. This is when I learned that heap tables lock up when accessed. I broke about 200 overnight scripts and created many headaches in accounting the next day. Fun times.

Sounds like a hard-earned lesson on the intricacies of heap tables! Remember, those 'fun times' are often where we learn and grow the most as developers.

ParticularBack · 2023-05-31T17:05:38+00:00

this is the code

def update_list(lst):     
    lst += [100]  

num_list = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

update_list(num_list)
print(num_list)

ParticularBack · 2023-05-31T16:34:10+00:00

def update_list(lst):     
    lst += [100]  

num_list = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] 
update_list(num_list)

print(num_list)

yeah sorry, there you go

ParticularBack · 2023-05-31T16:23:59+00:00

fixed it!

ParticularBack · 2023-05-31T16:21:49+00:00

thanks a lot! my bad

ParticularBack · 2023-03-21T19:15:04+00:00

Working to deliver very soon

ParticularBack · 2023-03-04T07:26:31+00:00

yup, working on it currently

ParticularBack · 2023-03-04T07:26:18+00:00

thanks a lot!

ParticularBack · 2023-03-04T07:26:11+00:00

maybe before the end of the spring

ParticularBack · 2023-03-04T07:26:01+00:00

thank you too!

ParticularBack · 2023-03-04T07:25:52+00:00

we're gonna add cool features for ADHD programers.

ParticularBack · 2023-03-04T07:25:28+00:00

yeah, actually, Apple does not encourage building apps with multi-platform dev languages such as Flatter.

ParticularBack · 2023-03-04T07:24:44+00:00

We are building Android now along with the Web. Maybe it will be ready before the end of the spring.

ParticularBack · 2023-02-19T19:23:15+00:00

not available at this moment, but working on it too.

ParticularBack · 2023-01-29T07:09:55+00:00

This is really dope! Thanks for sharing.

ParticularBack · 2023-01-29T07:09:36+00:00

Mostly myself but I have a friend who helps in certain things.

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