TWIL June 26th 2026

• Team lunch days are rarely productive
  • This is perhaps not ideal when working on a support ticket with production impact
  • Though I was working on it with the senior on my team in purpose for a couple hours with no luck
• Staring at logs all day is enough to make a person go slowly insane
  • Took a break while staring at logs to solve an easier ticket in the morning
  • Then joined senior in fruitlessly staring at logs from many different sources for the harder ticket
• Fun side note from the easier ticket, apparently one of our clients is not familiar with the meaning of 'persistent'
  • Seeing as they mark the NameID in their SAML responses with persistent but seemingly change it on each request despite being initiated by the same user
• It's very possible that even an error boundary at the very top of your React App will not catch errors your guests are seeing
  • At this point I almost wonder if it's a Cloudfront/internet in general issue
• Don't write parsing logic for something you might need to parse in the future
  • Cos you'll probably forget it's there when you implement a way which doesn't need parsing
  • Why use comma separated values when you can have a multi-select you filter with JS?
• Deeply (more than flat honestly) nested JSON is a pain to deal with, especially if you wanna validate any of it

Links

• Browser Engine-specific WPT Failures - Patrcik Brosset

Yet more disturbing evidence of Chrome going in an Internet Explorer direction.