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Re:'Ugh fields', or why you can’t even bear to think about t... by royletron on Saturday September 12, 2020 @05:37AM (#24451168)
My 'ugh field' right now is making a staging environment for a Wordpress blog that has been left untouched for quite a few years. Anyone raise me?
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Re:'Ugh fields', or why you can’t even bear to think about t... by hrishios on Saturday September 12, 2020 @09:51AM (#24452406)
Mine is a glucose tracking app that I made for my girlfriend. I did all the reverse engineering of the CGM, electronics, design and coding and published it so she can use it.

Except it hit a bug a few weeks ago and the "ugh" of setting up the dev environment with frontend tooling, Gradle and android just to fix it has left me procrastinating forever.

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