I just tracked down a bug with more twists, turns, and interconnecting weirdness than I’ve seen in years - maybe ever. I feel like I’m going to be telling the story of Olympic-level Bug-Chase-2024 for years, and I feel compelled to write about it. To be clear, the following is a streamlined retelling. I’m omitting the twists, turns and dead-ends that abounded. Also, now is a good time to mention that I just coincidentally got laid off in a “Reduction in Force”, want to hire me?! First, some context. (Commence handwaving) Some time ago, our tech team received a request to create a way of showcasing graduates of our workforce training program on a job board. Because this was scheduled for only a pilot and we were already committed to a lot of other work, I recommended a relatively simple NextJs application thrown up on Vercel and secured by Auth0. As we were outside of our AWS infrastructure and this was meant to be just for a small-scale pilot, I didn’t want to deal with databases.…
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