Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

17 Sep 2014, 9:14 a.m.

On Troubleshooting

Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2014 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.

Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

-- Jorge Luis Borges


Goddammit why won't this work

OK, fine, screw the venv, I'll do this in my main environment
OR
I guess I have to just do this as a global variable
OR
really, chmod 777? FINE

-- a plaintive chorus of programmers

We don't need a Sherlock Holmes; we need our infrastructure to not be a precarious wobbling Jenga tower.