4 ms·
Thank you for sharing this story. I consider war stories of this caliber to be unironically heroic exercises of thought.
by selfhoster11 5y ago
Thank you for sharing this story. I consider war stories of this caliber to be unironically heroic exercises of thought.
- parksy 5y agoThanks, I took a lot of flak from my colleagues and it was always treated like this wart on the outskirts of our COE. The only other options required discarding two month's work and refunding the client, or investing another few weeks building a bespoke PDF generator for this one use-case. I never really saw it as a heroic exercise, just had to think of a way to save everyone's time, money, and reputation in the fastest, safest, most reliable way possible. I never got a compliment for the solution (just a "okay if you think we can make it work go ahead", and afterwards a "nice work, let's hope it doesn't break") so this is a first. Thanks again.