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The biggest mystery known to mankind (thelemmy.club)
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[-] nous@programming.dev 71 points 1 week ago

My favourite: The code does not work. You make a change, it breaks more. You undo that mistake: it now works.

[-] Dremor@lemmy.world 31 points 6 days ago

Good ol' cache.

[-] mogranja@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 2 days ago

It's either cache, DNS or DNS cache.

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Or in the silliest circumstances wrong development environment.

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 24 points 6 days ago

I've had:

Code is broken. Make change

Code broken worse. Undo change

Code still broken. Revert to previous version

Code works. Check code- it has the change you just made that didn't work

[-] CodiUnicorn@programming.dev 8 points 6 days ago

Yeah, that's classic

[-] BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

My worst one, have working code, make a change, it broke. Revert it, still broken...

The issue was that all icons and stuff randomly got a wrong size in the GUI. Just had to restart the machine to fix it, but I was really pulling my hair out when I somehow broke things backwards in time.

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