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this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2025
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I’ll keep an eye out for this on the staging instance!
for the viewers at home: you definitely don't want to have to do this yourself
(we're going over the lemmy backend changelog and hooo boy)
Spill the tea!
an absolute clowncar of yolo development practices. here's just a few of the notes (there's a whole spreadsheet):
scripts that used to be called x.sh (shebang /bin/sh) suddenly renamed x.bash in main (shebang still /bin/sh). most of them take cli args, have no safety nets (arg checks etc), and have side effects (file alterations, commits and tags generated, etc)
there's a RELEASES.md which afaict is/was not generated by anything ever in the repo. it's also out of date, has been touched by 5 commits (one more if you include other branches), and is wrong
the build and test process ~~targets~~ uses both a rust stable version (1.81) and nightly
the container compose files fully switched out from the mainline postgres containers, to something called pgautoupgrade. I haven't yet gotten to look to see what it is/does, or what magic footguns it might be. the inter-version migration testing appears to be fully reliant on this thing.
the sum test action for migrations is "run sed over a target config, then spin it up"
there appear to be some new config settings. they have comments about their usage. they appear to be important. I only caught them because I was looking at the 0.19.3..0.19.12 diff
ah, cool. so, themes? the thing that almost every software out there makes as a lightweight pluggable?
not lemmy, no. in lemmy you recompile your app to get 'em. (source)
(edit: there's a special kind of thinking that goes into writing code this manner. this is pluggable (see extra_themes_dir) but consider the thinking that goes into writing code like this. "some bits static", with a maintenance burden and a recompile overhead. it's just absolutely fucking dumb)
LMAO, what the fuck. None of those make sense, what is the decision process there?
Edit: thanks for sharing btw :D
what is the decision process there
why think at all if you can just tread water and iterate 37 times instead?
(I don't really know what the thinking is, can only see the outcomes. but it's some hella mediocre no-effort shit, punching through the problem)
here's a straight copy from one of my notes:
CI: whatever the fuck this means: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/compare/0.19.3...0.19.12#diff-31c8b5ad58b6e0303652ae0b92b791054bd324b66b9a6538d89bff571de95e4aR208
scripts that used to be called
x.sh(shebang/bin/sh) suddenly renamedx.bashin main (shebang still/bin/sh).
That's just...so completely ass-backwards it boggles the mind.
is this the version that federates properly with instances running authorized fetch?
god I hope so
the current version has the option to enable authorized fetch but it breaks federation entirely if you enable it because it doesn’t work
when downtime? did it already happen
E: seems it is back up. Not sure if it is my tired eyes, but for a moment there the background looked more gray than normal. Good work everybody
tomorrow
damn i can't read
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Good news, I'll be asleep by then.
Update: I woke up at nine, and it was still updating. Seems this took a lot longer than I expected.
Looking downthread at the bananas stuff ya'll are digging up, do you think that there could be some vibe coding involved?
slander, lemmy devs are well capable of making all of this cruft organically
so there isn't a cursorrules file? it does look like authentic organic artisanal coding Rust like a DOS batch file.
but OTOH I would not be surprised.
is it over can I open my eyes?
yeah looks good here
this arrow is giving me Feelings:
uggh federation's broken hold on
awful.systems, in its ST:DIS roleplay era
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if these two posts were the other way around this would've been my next lines
honestly this is kinda a banger for the current lemmy debug experience
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