R.I.P.
Works only on Jashan's laptop
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“It worked on my machine. Now it rests there.”
Death certificate
- Status
- 🪦 Buried
- Cause of death
- Works on my machinePassed every test locally, then met production and an environment it had never seen.
- Severity
- Medium
- Hours to kill
- 14 hours
- Killed by
- Jashanpreet
- Language
- Python
- Born
- 23 Sept 2024
- Fix merged
- 1 Oct 2024
- Buried
- 10 Oct 2024
- Component
- config
- Symptoms
- The app ran on one laptop but crashed in CI with a missing environment variable.
- The fix
- Checked every required setting at startup and documented it in .env.example.
Timeline
Every life of this bug, oldest first.
Born as “Works only on Jashan's laptop”23 Sept 2024
Fix merged1 Oct 2024
Buried10 Oct 2024