I miss editing PHP files on production servers using vim

[lilahtovmoon@tech.lgbt]

I miss editing PHP files on production servers using vim

[mausmalone@mastodon.social]

@LilahTovMoon lol and, if I may add, lmao

I still do this, and more often than I should ever admit. IT has made it so onerous for me to do anything the right way that, if there's any need for a quick fix, there's no other option.

[acornsquashbuckler@tech.lgbt]

@LilahTovMoon Why should something lame like "process" or "good practice" or "dear god not on prod" stop you? Don't let your dreams be dreams

[purple@tech.lgbt]

@LilahTovMoon we didn't even know we were born

[lerxst@az.social]

@AcornSquashbuckler @LilahTovMoon Everybody has a test environment. Some of them are even separate from prod!

[lennby@laconic.social]

@LilahTovMoon
noooo

[drahardja@sfba.social]

@LilahTovMoon In my first job for a now long-dead ISP, I generated FrontPage sites and added ASP code into them, and then fixed bugs live on production servers with Notepad.

[twynb@tech.lgbt]

@LilahTovMoon nobody's stopping u from still doing it >:]

[waywardsun@tech.lgbt]

@LilahTovMoon You can always take up chainsaw juggling as a hobby, much the same kick, but less dangerous

[seindal@mastodon.uno]

@LilahTovMoon

If that's your preference, you'd probably enjoy ed(1) on a Teletype too

It's not as easy as it looks, depending on how much paper remains in the box at your feet.

[varx@infosec.exchange]

@mausmalone @LilahTovMoon I've done this, more or less.

I SSH'd into one of our production boxes, attached a REPL to a running Clojure web server, and swapped out a function in the server process.

This helped us *finally* solve a bug that we had been unable to figure out from telemetry and experiments. We also took a number of precautions in order to make this safe. But it was still fun as hell.