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@thechenderson walks through four monitoring bugs where nothing errored: a "local" probe hitting the public internet, two replicas collapsed into one series, and one config line that dropped 870 of 935 Postgres series. First DEV post!

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dev.to 870 of 935 Metrics Vanished and Nothing Errored: Four Ways My Alerts Lied to Me The Short Version An alert called "local" was checking the public internet. Two replicas...
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Deno on a Raspberry Pi 2B turned out to be an unsupported platform, so a Discord bot MVP pivoted to Go. @paytastic starts a series on overbuilding a bot for friends until it gets silly, beginning with a quote manager and a systemd service.

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dev.to Overbuilding Part 1: Discord Bot MVP The beginning of a journey building a Discord bot--and not just building it: overbuilding it until it gets silly to practice and learn. Level one is just getting something up that works.
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@msdos41_ tests emoji support by drawing each one twice on a canvas in different fill colors. A real color glyph ignores the fill, a missing one doesn't. Missing ones get an image, and copy still gives the real emoji. First DEV post!

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dev.to Detecting emoji that Windows 10 can't draw, and swapping in images without breaking copy I run CopyCute, a small site of cute symbols and kaomoji. I started it after watching a friend search...
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