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by oritart 1367 days ago
I've definitely experienced this before! But, like, its dramatically different if you're physically in the space and there's visible pressure. Its not like I was at home dealing with a crisis where I could more easily block out everything. And coding from scratch is significantly more stressful, imo, than bug fixing.

In addition to my (former) day job, one of my side projects is a live service with ~60k monthly users, and it has broken in prod multiple times.

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> But, like, its dramatically different if you're physically in the space and there's visible pressure

For sure. Not dismissing the author’s achievement here, just noting that it does happen frequently in our industry.

P.S: I once had to fix something in prod during a demo of upcoming features to paying customers. Nothing like using Remote Desktop (yep not even SSH) into four servers to manually change a line in a bundled and minimised Nodejs app!

(To be clear, I'm the author)