I spent a week debugging a build issue

Yeah, it was the cached dependencies, how did you guess?

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There are two hard problems in computer sciences. Cache invalidation, naming things and off by one errors.

Ugh. When I can't solve something in a day the imposter syndrome starts breathing down my neck.

Hahaaa the first thing you checked too? But didn’t realize it was that until way later? That’s me!

Yup. I got our QA guy to help debug it and he was like "maybe just dont upgrade the dodgy dependency and delete your cache" lmfao yup fixed it

iglou@programming.dev · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

If something should work, but it doesn't, nuke all the caches before diving in the rabbit hole of debugging weird issues

We literally have a "pnpm nuke" command to help us with that.