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Re:Why Engineers Need to Write by recfab on Friday March 24, 2023 @08:15PM (#35297497)
It's surprising how many developers won't even bother to read an error message.

At my list gig there were a few folks who would regularly message me anytime there was a failure in their CI pipeline. No reading the message. Possibly not even opening the failed job at all.

Most of the time, the pipeline was doing what it was supposed to: failing a bad build. It didn't even occur to them that it was their code that was the problem. Just "the pipeline is red: send to @recfab".

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Re:Why Engineers Need to Write by sophiabits on Saturday March 25, 2023 @12:58AM (#35299596)
I recently paired with someone who was running into issues configuring some settings in the Facebook developers console.

I got them to demo the issue for me, and they /immediately/ closed out of the error dialog when it popped up. Maddening!

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