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Replace Devise with Authentication Zero in 10+ year old codebase, but only took about 2 days. Let's hope everything still works
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Realize how nice it is to have a managed PostgreSQL database that lets me restore to any transaction at any point in time in the last 7 days so there's no data loss at all if I mess up
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Learn the hard way that dropping a seemingly old and now irrelevant Postgres schema (e.g. "heroku_ext") also drops any of its extensions (e.g. "citext") which then drops all the columns that depend on it (e.g. "users.username") even in other schemas!
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Accidentally take down the site for a few hours because 1) my new firewall configuration blocked the web server from accessing the database, and 2) I missed the uptime monitoring notifications because I've been too busy working
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Subscribe Zapier to the daily newsletter and have it ping UptimeRobot so we can notified whenever the daily newsletter fails to send
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Destroy all startups with a missing submission record because they were probably intended to be deleted, but weren't fully
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Fix bug where a report wouldn't be deleted when the startup was, leaving unlinked reports causing problems
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