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submitted 3 days ago by merthyr1831@lemmy.ml to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 26 points 2 days ago

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

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 19 points 2 days ago

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

[–] iglou@programming.dev 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] angelmountain@feddit.nl 4 points 1 day ago

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

[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 days ago

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