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Alex Russellslightlyoff@toot.cafe
Oct 26, 2026, 12:18 AM
TFW you "beat" a bug by rolling a dependency back to a previous version after failing to root-cause the issue for hours. German probably has a word for this feeling of self-defeat in victory.
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Alex Russellslightlyoff@toot.cafe
Oct 26, 2026, 12:39 AM
Unrelated, but have finally used `pnpm patch` in anger, and I'm very taken by how easy it was:
https://pnpm.io/cli/patch
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🎃 Pumpkin Spice Cap Ybarra 🎃cap_ybarra@beige.party
Oct 26, 2026, 1:13 AM
@slightlyoff i didn't know this existed and as an inordinate monkey patcher i am intrigued
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Milan Rajrajsite@mastodon.social
Oct 26, 2026, 2:06 AM
@slightlyoff For vanilla npm repos (and others) patch-package has been a similarly surprisingly nice experience: https://www.npmjs.com/package/patch-package
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🎃 Pumpkin Spice Cap Ybarra 🎃cap_ybarra@beige.party
Oct 26, 2026, 1:14 AM
@slightlyoff what's german for "that'll do pig, that'll do"
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Just van den Broeckejustb4@mapstodon.space
Oct 26, 2026, 2:12 AM
@slightlyoff in Spanish one could say: "Una Chapuza".
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