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I'm remembering tools I've worked with where the cheeky dev required things like type the sentence "I know what I am doing and wish to proceed." in order to per
by 1_2__3 10y ago
I'm remembering tools I've worked with where the cheeky dev required things like type the sentence "I know what I am doing and wish to proceed." in order to perform unsafe operations.
I've always wondered why ops hasn't adopted some of the best practices that have been around for years to avoid fat finger errrors. Like why don't we have systems where to do something dangerous requires two separate people run the command, or there's an approval step, or whatever.
- fixermark 10y agoThe most common explanation: "cute" interactions make it harder to script the command-line tools because you have to account for the extra layer of indirection or write a bit of screen-scrape logic to get the command prompt input. I've always found that explanation a little threadbare.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoI think the hoops you have to jump through should scale with severity. Then if you find yourself writing scripts that screen-scrape interactive output to get around some safeguards, you're doing something very wrong.