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this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2026
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I feel called out. I'm not sure which way I'd go.
Get somebody else to pull it.
For science.
You know what this is based AF because if you don’t do it a second time how would you know if it wasn’t a weird edge case or a race condition or maybe you just didn’t internalize the cause and effect because you weren’t looking for it until a bug appeared
Ah, come on this is valid investigation.
If you get the same error every time, you know you can find it and debug it, somewhat with ease.
If you don’t, you might have a thornier issue at hand.
I hate how stupid and obvious this is, but we all do it at least once if the compile is short. But with a 20 min compile, I am investigating.
But sometimes it works, or throws a different error ...
And a different error means progress!
A different error each time?
You make a change. It doesn't fix it.
You change it back. The code now works.
the real fix was the journey, the destination never mattered
Most applications aren't written to compile deterministically so there is always a chance.
Compile? Is that true? Pretty sure compilers are generally deterministic in their output.
Mainly making a joke that they aren't binarialy deterministic. Semantically they are though. https://blog.onepatchdown.net/2026/02/22/are-compilers-deterministic-nerd-version/
Hmmm would most code these days be compiled into minified JavaScript? That might be more deterministic.
JavaScript is what is called an interpreted language there is no compiling at all the code is directly read and interpreted at runtime. Most of the time it's minified which reduces the size. Or in the case Vue React or Angular is transpiled which still results in JavaScript code but framework specific syntax is broken out and it's ran through bable to do backwards compatibility for older browsers.
Isn’t Typescript compiled into JavaScript?
Technically transpiled. Compiling results in something binary.
No a compiler just translates from one language into another. Transpilers are a type of compiler.
Typescript is transpiled into JavaScript. It's not a whole new language just additions to JavaScript.
A transpiler is a compiler. And it doesn’t have to convert from one language to another to be considered a compiler.
The usual for me is that I flip back over to my editor and hit ctrl+save, cause heaven forbid I ever remember to do that before running.
I have no regrets from setting my editor to save-on-blur