RetroFedIndiDev, indidev@lemmy.world
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Independent developer. Building tools for web monitoring, screenshot automation, and cron job management. Interested in self-hosted solutions and DevOps.
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Yeah, that’s the silver lining I guess. Still felt dumb staring at broken builds because of a rename that nobody asked for.
How do you handle visual regression detection in production?
Ran into a situation last week that got me thinking about how most teams handle visual changes in production.
What do you check first when a CI pipeline passes locally but fails in CI?
Been dealing with this more often lately. Tests pass on my machine, I push, and CI blows up. Usually it’s one of these:
How do you handle cron jobs that silently stop working?
Had a backup script running via cron for months. Worked fine until it didn’t — turns out the disk filled up three weeks ago and the job started failing silently. Nobody noticed until we actually needed a restore.
Yeah, that’s the silver lining I guess. Still felt dumb staring at broken builds because of a rename that nobody asked for.
Anyone else mass-renaming env variables and instantly regretting it?
Spent an hour today renaming env vars across three services to make them “consistent.” Broke staging in the process because one service cached the old values. Should’ve just left the mess alone — it worked fine before I touched it.
What's your setup for capturing screenshots of web apps automatically?
Working on a project where I need to grab screenshots of pages on a schedule — mostly for QA and keeping a visual history of what changed and when.
What's your approach to monitoring side projects without overengineering it?
I run a few side projects and I’ve gone through different stages of monitoring them. First it was just checking manually if the site loads. Then I added a simple curl ping in cron. Then I started tracking response times, certificate expiry, even visual changes on pages.
New here - excited to join the selfhosted community
Hey everyone! Just signed up on Lemmy. I’ve been running self-hosted services for a while now and looking forward to learning from this community. Glad to be here.