I can absolutely guarantee that you are not the only person to have spent quality time getting to know the intimate backwaters of a codebase tracking down a bug that you introduced whilst tracking down a bug.
Source: I’ve been writing software for over 40 years.
I call that Tuesday.
Today I spent multiple hours trying to debug a timezone issue in a codebase. The timezone I was testing with was
Etc/GMT+4, which I had assumed was four hours ahead of GMT. Turns out, it’s actually 4 hours behind GMT 🤦♂️I cannot express how much I hate that timezones aren’t flipped.
12:00+02:00should be equal to14:00+00:00like a math equation!
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it. Yesterday I was trying to debug my reverse proxy setup for a new app and why it wouldn’t work.
Well, if you configure it to route shinyNewApp.example.com to your app, but then always access sihnyNewApp.example.com with your browser…
