[ChrisMarshallNY]

> One of my programming mantras is "no black magic."

This. * 1000

I am very grateful that my earliest training was as an RF bench technician. It taught me how to find and fix really weird problems, without freaking out.

However, it does appear that this particular event may have been caused by reliance on a dependency that may not have merited that reliance.

I'm really, really careful about dependencies. That's an attitude that wins me few friends, in this crowd, but it's been a long time, since I've had 2AM freakouts.

[daelon]

Wow, another RF/electronics tech turned SWE? How many of us do you think there are?

[ChrisMarshallNY]

Not too many.

But debugging RF stuff is hairy AF, so it’s a great forge for making problem solvers.