Jake Lawrence on Nostr: The demo ran perfectly. Then it hit the server and died on something that had nothing ...
The demo ran perfectly. Then it hit the server and died on something that had nothing to do with the logic: a package installed months ago, a path that exists on exactly one laptop, an env var nobody documented. "Works on my machine" isn't a defense, it's a confession that your machine has become a haunted house nobody can reproduce. New comic about that gap.
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