had one last week that I couldn't reproduce locally or on staging. adding logging required a deploy, which felt sketchy when I didn't even know what I was looking for yet. ended up bumping verbosity on one prod instance and watching real traffic for about 40 minutes until it triggered

do you have a shadow/mirror env that catches these, or is it always some version of flying blind with extra logs

asking because I've got a chunk of auth logic at work that I basically wrote and maintained solo for two years. not by design, just kind of evolved that way. started getting nervous about vacation coverage and eventually wrote a doc for it but the doc got stale within like a month.

curious how other people handle the bus factor problem when it just kind of happens organically rather than being a deliberate choice

We're looking at adding payroll to our platform but I don't want customers getting pushed into another company's product every time they need to run payroll

Ideally we'd own the experience and keep everything under our brand while someone else handles the actual payroll infrastructure, tax filings and compliance behind it

I've been looking into white label payroll for this but I'm curious how much control platforms get over the customer experience

been the only dev on a backend service for about two years. finally sat down to write proper docs for it today.

found a try/except block in the job queue handler. catches one very specific exception type. does absolutely nothing with it -- no log, no reraise, no fallback. just silences it. there's no comment explaining why. no linked ticket. no slack thread I can dig up. git blame points to a commit message that says 'fix job queue issue' with no further detail.

I genuinely cannot reconstruct what I was protecting against.

if you work solo, please leave your future self a comment. even one line. it costs nothing. I am begging you.

Preface this by saying I have moral scrupulosity/ social judgment-related OCD, so there’s that lol

I see people on here still writing their code by hand; at my company we do not have that option unless we outright defy orders from our boss, which I assume would get you fired. I get a lot less satisfaction out of my work now, the code generation part is extremely mind numbing, I’m really sad about not getting to write code anymore. The planning/architecture phase can be kind of fun though.

Yes I am looking for a new job but the issue is (maybe I’m just a shitty developer but) I am genuinely like 10x faster with AI so if I do not use it, I would be consciously choosing to do a worse job, which also feels wrong and silly. I also hate admitting this but it has given me a lot of genuinely helpful suggestions and taught me new things. obviously sometimes it also does dumb things, but I do dumb things sometimes too. As obnoxious and eye rolling as it can be talking to Claude, “he” is genuinely that good when it comes to the types of things we are building.

In my personal life I do not use AI because I have a 100% HEAVILY anti AI social group, and I try to make ethical choices like I avoid beef, boycott Amazon/Spotify/Starbucks, etc. I feel like an impostor for not confessing to them that my entire job is to use AI all day now. Like for example last night a girl I know posted on her close friends about how she wants to murder people who use AI at work (hopefully being hyperbolic) and I have to hang out with this girl in a couple weeks…

my coworker has also refused to use it but for some reason my boss hasn’t talked to him about it yet. He’s just waiting to get fired. My therapist is making me do stuff like put an AI app on my home screen where someone could see it as homework. Maybe I should be posting this on the OCD sub but I really want to hear from other people going through this same dilemma.

I've been interested in this functionality (when a site detects your adblocker and kindly asks u to whitelist).

The only idea that comes to mind is setting a div in the layout with "ad" class or something similar, and then if a user has adblocker the adblocker would be removing this div from the dom. I don't think this would consistently work for every (or at least most of the popular) adblockers out there.

Edit: Electronic-Post12351 got was able to understand exactly what I was describing and offer a conclusive reason for the sudden breakage. It lines up with the exact behavior we've been experiencing. I really appreciate it!

My colleague and I are at a loss with what has suddenly broken our web based scheduling app that was written with PHP on the backend and Javascript on the front end.

The front end basically acts as a dynamic HTML based table that allows users to drag, drop, delete, and complete scheduling entries.

It is manually saved why taking a snapshot of the table in a jscn array and writing it to a SQL table on our database.

I spent a year, before the AI boom, writing this application myself and working out all of the bugs and inconsistencies.

I have debugging code out the ass, and know the application like the back of my hand

My last update was October of 2025 and it has ran fine with zero reported issues.

​Now suddenly this week in September 2026 it has utterly shit the bed with no discernible reason as to why.

Shit how, you may ask? Well elements are no longer dragging and dropping correctly on both Edge and Chrome. The dragging does work, and dropping throws an error because the dragged object in null.

Table column cell shifting and all of my movement functions have stopped working correctly, with no console errors at all.

It's as if my Javascript has just stopped workout correctly.

The biggest change has been a web server upgrade from Bullseye to Trixie, which involved upgrading Javascript and PHP to the newest stable versions.

However, this was maybe 3-4 weeks ago at this rate.

So perhaps the old Javascript was cached until recently?

I am at a loss. I've never seen things break with no indication as to why. I've been in web dev for 5 years now, and there's USUALLY a damn trail to follow.

At most restarting the browser via a manual reboot command seems to temporarily fix drag and drop functionality. Almost as though some corrupted cached file or setting is getting reset.

The html is building correctly, there are no backend bugs on our apache logs, and no sql issues upon saving.

Like why would dragging and dropping suddenly break in Chromium browsers? Did they push anything recently that bricked things?

I can't find anything indicating as such, and I am at a loss of how to debug this. It literally broke at 4pm on a Friday before this holiday weekend, and now I'm trying to get ahead of it before Tuesday.

Guys, this is my game dev account I made to post about our game and randomly chat on related topics.

It's annoying me so badly I had to join this sub and ask. It's the 11th hour at our job during busy season, and it would be an absolute pain in the ass to transition back to a giant excel sheet manually typing everything.

Any help, experience, or a point in the right direction would be a huge help.

Recently I had an idea for a research tool, I realized I'd need to be able to find websites programmatically and the webs data is behind the largest corporations, not something we reliably have access to for being able to develop around.

So it got me thinking, how lightweight could you first build a crawler if you only cared about getting meta data (titles, description and the url)? Then it got me thinking, could we not share the load, create a distributed peer to peer network and make this data decentralized?

So what I have built is the open web directory. A network that crawls and builds a yellow pages like directory for web pages online.

You can setup your own node and contribute to the network by simply running:

git clone https://github.com/idev-games/the-open-web-directory.git cd the-open-web-directory npm start 

And open port 80 for that device by port forwarding.

I think this is going to be a fascinating experiment, it's early days so expect bugs and issues but give it ago and let's see if we can index the web.

Check out more info here:

https://github.com/iDev-Games/The-Open-Web-Directory

The site listed on github is the live front end (you can host the html files in the public folder anywhere to open another frontend on the web).

Hello, I have been thinking about a project I‘d like to try out, where I have like a Database, an api server and a web server. It‘s not too large, and mostly to learn about how they all interact. The issue is, I would prefer not having to pay for multiple servers to host everything. Is there a way to simulate how it would be in real life on a single machine?