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It's not quite yak shaving, but it certainly is... something: > I mean, we are running Access in Wine in X11 on Linux in an isolated user account on our server
by bcbrown 5y ago
It's not quite yak shaving, but it certainly is... something:
> I mean, we are running Access in Wine in X11 on Linux in an isolated
user account on our server slice that revision controls your Access
database in git, and we're displaying it using VNC in your web browser
in flash. People can't possibly want that. But they need it.
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20120326 https://apenwarr.ca/log/20120326
(Not mine, but seems relevant)
- justinjlynn 5y agoWow. That's amazing. Any other stories you know like that one?
- cyber_kinetist 5y agoThat’s the total opposite of yak shaving, but in the most hilarious way. Layers upon layers of systems and protocols to maintain legacy systems… lazily use a bunch of glue and duck tape to build the whole thing… and it miraculously works!
- abrookewood 5y agoThat's such a good article! The pain, suffering and mind-numbing boredom of SUCCESS ...
- noisy_boy 5y agoI find it somewhat disturbing that this felt like a reasonable approach to me...
- p_l 5y agoI always wonder why the Access database isn't moved then from JET to some database server, even MSSQL (Postgres would also work), and then you can continue Access but without needing to snapshot it in weird and possibly broken ways?