Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️argh
the site I have to automate the API of has a nice python wrapper and the one function I need is marked "WIP sorry"
last modified in 2022
I figured I could easily fix the problem in the one function I needed
I think I've now found a bug in python's standard library
oh it might be fixed in 3.15.0a6, which hasn't been released yet
oh god there's a stackoverflow question mentioning this bug from 2015
the biggest hurdle I face with programming is that I often only have like, an hour or two worth of energy to work on it a day
and I can easily use that all up on bullshit
like today I wanted to write a script that recurses through some folders, finds files matching a regex, and upload them to a local service. easy! I can imagine the whole script in my head even before my fingers touch the keyboard
but the API wrapper is out of date so I'll have to modify that oh and it doesn't support local servers so I'll need to implement that and wait requests/urllib3/certifi/python's ssl module/python's _ssl module has a bug and can't parse my cert.
I can hack around that, who cares. oh I need to supply a client certificate? no problem, that's in my OS's certificate store, I'll just export that... okay it's marked as non-exportable. so I have to hack it out
myrmepropagandistIs this cleaning up other people's messes? Because now it is in your program and feels like your mess? Or is is more like adaptation?