a while ago, in my first engineering job, I was tracking down a strange bug related to chinese character sets. Turns out some of the db tables were using utf8

a while ago, in my first engineering job, I was tracking down a strange bug related to chinese character sets. Turns out some of the db tables were using utf8 and latin1; changing them to `utf8mb4` fixed it right up! https://josh.works/troubleshooting-chinese-character-sets-in-mysql https://josh.works/troubleshooting-chinese-character-sets-in... It was a fun bug to work on. I learned a lot about character encoding, and enjoyed bringing a refined "process" to the table.