So my manager today asked me if I could stay later when there’s broken things in prod, and then today his star dream employee yolo’ed a full stack change into prod without review. It’s fucking massive and implements new API endpoints, touches >20 files. Many of the diffs are too large to render in the browser.
It’s almost comical, but something immediately broke.
Most of my day, I’m digging through code to identify bugs created from this shit, just to get a stealth merge midday.
I kind of don’t know what to do.
So does a browser. Modern browsers don’t even need to receive the whole HTML to start rendering things.
There’s a lot of engineering effort put into browsers, much more than in terminal emulators because they need to do much more than just rendering text.
Ok, maybe i have a slight bias, because editors in-browser are usually a system-in-system(-in-system) JS mess.