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Modern computing is just trying to keep

2024-10-04 23:25:02.113057+02 by Dan Lyke 3 comments

Modern computing is just trying to keep up with all of the places where people have changed things for bullshit reasons, and fixing the resulting broken processes, until you die.

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#Comment Re: Modern computing is just trying to keep made: 2024-10-08 10:08:57.541757+02 by: spc476

Let me guess---the Insta­Me­Tik­Face­My­Linked­Pin­Book­Space­Tok­We­In­Trest­Gram gateway that you were using broke?

#Comment Re: Modern computing is just trying to keep made: 2024-10-08 21:53:53.597758+02 by: Dan Lyke

I think that was related to upgrading my server to the latest LTS, and going through and finding all of the places where defaults had changed so I had to go change /etc files until my code worked.

Which, given that most of that code was written over 20 years ago, I guess isn't too bad.

#Comment Re: Modern computing is just trying to keep made: 2024-10-08 21:53:53.597758+02 by: Dan Lyke

It may also have been tweaked by:

$ npm run build
Usage Error: This project is configured to use pnpm

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