A Database Constraint Can Close the Gap Between Checking and Writing
Checking whether a record exists before inserting another one does not guarantee uniqueness.
Engineering notes from the sharp end
Practical writing about software, systems, delivery, and things that behave strangely under pressure.
wade womersley – york based software engineer I write the way I work: direct, useful, and more interested in what holds up in production than what sounds clever on a slide.
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A proper game manual could get the adventure going before the game had even started.
Programming
A webhook can contain perfectly sensible JSON and still fail signature verification.
Programming
A request ID in one log line is useful.
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One of my favourite things about furry conventions is how quickly the wonderfully ridiculous starts to look normal.
Software Engineer
A temporary feature flag is very good at becoming a permanent piece of the application.
Software Engineer
A test that repeats the implementation can pass while proving very little.
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My favourite sort of Halloween decoration is the one that has wandered slightly away from being scary.
Programming
“Run it at six” is incomplete information for a scheduled job.
Programming
Replacing app.js and hoping every cache forgets the old version is a fairly unpleasant deployment strategy.