It means that we are currently living in what is possibly the worst time in history. And that includes the black plague.
Our local junior ball team temporarily rebranded as the Cobra Chickens for shits and giggles. They are selling merch. Damn right I bought a hoodie.
I had a new friend over making soap while she packaged some of my bars up. Turns out, I can't talk and make soap. It turned out like cookie dough. I had to shovel the batter into the molds. Anyone else have a very visible fail moment with something you're supposed to be good at?
Yeah I messed up a configuration setting that opened 2500 pull requests in 5 seconds. It was very popular with development teams.
You shouldn't trust anyone who has worked in IT for a long time, but doesn't have a story about causing a production outage or disruption because of a routine thing they accidentally messed up. The two most visible things I've done were rebooting the core router for a company without checking to see if the 300+ lines of configuration were saved (they weren't) resulting in several hours of rebuilding while the entire company's network was down, and popping a drive out of the wrong storage appliance thus destroying all of the data on the appliance and resulting in a few days of restore/rebuild while we fetched backups from off-site and attempted to figure out what used to be there. Most of my other fuck-ups were constrained to specific teams or very short outages. On a 20+ year career, I figure I'm doing pretty well. But it's basically impossible to have any sort if responsibility in the IT world and not screwing up something that you're usually really good at.
Deploying a tool to automatically detected OSS licensing issues and generate SBOMs. Didn't realize it required a PR on every repo to set it up. Luckily we had a script to undo all of it fairly quickly. Good times.
I once deleted Master at an old startup I used to work at. Those were fun times too. Nothing like shrieking "STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING!" to a crowded room of devs, and then spending the next day to try and piece the repo back together. Github has since made it much, much harder to do that, but back in the days of limited safeties, yep... those were fun times. When "cowboy up" meant something.
I apparently took down the entire analytics system more than a year after I left the company. We call that "the landmine."
Yeah Github screams at you for any enterprise action with, "ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DO THAT?" *Clicks Yes* "ARE YOU FUCKING SURE?" My screw-up was a month ago, but there is still a principal dev bitching about it to anyone who would listen. Last week he publicly exposed a SQL server (somehow). Guess who stopped bitching about GitHub?