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@nixCraft But what if someone else is on call?
@nixCraft Also, never have dental work done on a Friday
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@nixCraft I managed 2 (yes, TWO) PCs with Windows 10 at a small restaurant. The updates were disabled and I did security updates only on Mondays on holiday manually after running a UrBackup live image snapshot.

Actually, my original plan was to image the working machine, run the restaurant managing software and see what happens after updates but the software provider didn't allow a secondary license for testing.

I heard Azure servers got down, this is unbelievable.

@nixCraft that sign can't stop me because i can't read

@pixiekat @nixCraft

Best ever quote from D.W. on the "Arthur" cartoon series!

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Don't worry, it's just a minor fix.
@nixCraft akshully… if you’re QA is that lousy, you better never deploy and seek another profession.
@nixCraft Why not? This way the IT stuff has the whole weekend to fix their systems 🤪
@nixCraft @ianb Unless you're going on holiday for two weeks and leaving the country an hour after you leave work?
@nixCraft do it on a monday so i can take the whole week off instead of just friday
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... Unless you have a large supply of popcorn. 😎

@nixCraft now if you were on an instance that allows the ```…``` fenced Markdown code blocks, you’d be fine posting that.

But not without. Your toots are transmitted as HTML over AP, and without a <pre> tag in that, will neither preserve whitespace nor be rendered in an appropriate font, so if you’re on Mastoson, you cannot post such things.

@mirabilos @nixCraft it displays fine here, for what it's worth. (tusky on android)
@draeath @nixCraft then your instance and/or client don’t implement things properly
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@nixCraft in my case: the only time nobody uses production is friday afternoon.
So I had to push there.
As it's a friday, it failed.
Friday evening: "why is nothing working? You should not push on fridays!"
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@nixCraft @ErikUden

exactly do it on Monday and frick up the whole workweek right from the getgo like we do 😆

@nixCraft , discovered my bug yesterday, so going to spend all day, and all weekend fixing it. Sadly, on my own time.
@soundconjurer @nixCraft noo, you should be able to have a weekend as well. And if you don't, you should at least be paid for it.

We discovered a production-critical bug today as well but I'll clock out at 5 and have my well-deserved weekend. We'll fix it on monday.
@perry @nixCraft , I understand that should all be true. However, if I don't solve this bug as soon as possible, I'll be nonstop thinking about it. I would usually never do this for other bugs, but this one is such a mystery to me, my mind has become obsessed with it. I spent all afternoon sitting with my laptop just stepping through the code and not seeing a single reason why it's happening. 🥲 I woke up consumed by it.
@soundconjurer @nixCraft maybe that's exactly a reason to take a step back? Like, go on walk, meet with friends, read something, whatever you like. Maybe it'll come to you, maybe it won't. But your mind works a lot better if you're fresh and recovered.
@perry @nixCraft , well, for many people, that would be very likely the solution. For me, I'll dissociate into a maladaptive daydream parsing the code in my head. Hyperfixations that fall into my special interests = inability to escape the task.
@soundconjurer @nixCraft hm, I understand. Just make sure to take care of yourself and take some breaks. And if you see an opportunity to distract yourself with something else over the weekend, seize it.
@nixCraft How about a gentle nudge productionwards?
Das ist etwas verrückt.
@nixCraft I need one of these for my company that has pushed production updates during production hours and halted production. Every day this week while we were being audited externally.

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Never push on Friday. Don't push on Thursday either, because of time zones it's somebody else's Friday.

Monday is right out, you can't blow the whole company's week. Tuesday either, see timezones, it's somebody else's Monday.

Because of all that, everyone has to get all their work done on Wednesday, so you totally can't push then.

If only folks had a pilot group of test or QA systems that could update a week before the main fleet. Hmmm...

@nixCraft , yup! I was trying to download a Visual Studio plugin and it was not happening last night for a while and Azure was hosed. I don't know when it went down, but came up within the hour.

Only working on Windows for my job. 🥲

@nixCraft I mean, I think it was still Thursday somewhere.
@nixCraft I was just telling my coworkers this 🤣
@nixCraft As a QA manager....please don't push on Friday. Please.
@nixCraft Or the Wednesday night before payday Friday.
@nixCraft #NoDeployFriday is basically the norn at every company I've been to the point that violating this got people fired in some cases.