Errors in SQL can cause unnecessary stress.
Consider

select username,email, password_hash from users;

against

select username, email password_hash from users;

#SQL
#DevLife

I have concluded it is impossible to sign up for an Apple account without a newish Apple device.

I have borrowed an iPhone and made an account and disconnected the account from the iPhone, but after my login timed out, I can no longer login again, phone number MFA failing with
"Verification codes cannot be sent to this phone number at this time. Please try again later."

It is all just SOOOOO bad. I challenge anyone without an Apple device to make an Apple account, then sing the praises of Apple.

#DevLife
#Apple

Today's impossible task is to create an Apple Account.
First attempt failed on the capture.
Second attempt, made it to entering a code from a txt message and left with the helpful message "Your account cannot be created at this time."

I thought Apple were meant to be amazing at UZ, but it appears that is incorrect.

#DevLife
#Apple

Hey fellow developers!

If you've ever accidentally caused a security incident, or been part of a team that did, I'd like to hear about it (privately if you want).

I have a few of my own, I'm not just hoping to laugh at others.

I'm writing a presentation about how security incidents come about, from a dev and product perspective. For our learning, but mostly for security people who are flummoxed as to why we would do the things we do.

Functional tests using automated browser driving with tools like Selenium https://www.selenium.dev/ are really great at giving you confidence the software is operating correctly.

The downside is, from my experience, they are very hard to make reliable and browser updates can suddenly cause all your tests to fail when the application is still certainly working.

#Software
#DevLife

There’s nothing like starting the day being both excited and bothered by the new production bug you created and need to resolve, hopefully before anyone notices. #devlife

This is a life milestone not because I got access to the repository, but because it is the first time of my life someone defined me a “Developer”!

I cannot believe it

Thank you @boz + @Merge_IT

Disk run out of inodes when there are a large number of directories containing git checkouts.

```
for f in * ; do
echo $f ;
if [ -d $f/.git ]; then
cd $f
git gc
cd ..
fi
done
```

#Linux
#DevLife

Top class issue reporting from an end user.
#DevLife

I am not sure I agree that the Dell NVIDIA RTX A800 is an entry level graphics card.
#DevLife

The best and worst of .NET! In the latest Breakpoint Show episode, we take a trip down memory lane, revisiting the .NET features we’ve loved and the ones that made us rethink our life choices. Join us for a fun, opinionated discussion! #dotnet #csharp #DevLife https://www.breakpoint.show/podcast/episode-035-net-features-love-it-or-hate-it/

The best developers are hopeless at documentation.
#DevLife

Music and code are an absolute delightful combination. Code repositories should include a MUSIC.md file that includes a playlist of songs on repeat while developing the codebase. Or at least "Music Inspirations" from each contributor. That would make for some interesting statistics!

I wonder if code quality or style would correlate with shared music tastes? Maybe certain genres inspire different coding patterns...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5ke731a3V8&t=2s

Me, the last time I was working away from my office:
#DevLife

RestructuredText is more powerful, and full featured than Markdown. Everyone should be using RestructuredText instead of Markdown for their documents and Static Site Generators.

I fixed a bug that's several years old today at the request of a team that needs the intended functionality. I'm now living in constant fear that we have a customer somewhere who will upgrade 4 years from now and realize they were relying on a bug we just hadn't patched out yet.

Well, that was new.
Was invited to a short adhoc meeting with the new client, and the client’s research partner rep:

HIM: I used to work as a product owner …

ME: (Wait for it)

HIM: I won’t change the plan. But can I see your backlog? How many tasks? Can I …? How about …?