Sealed record · ce9bc51b
A confession of skipped steps.
The checklist said 'backup before migrating'. I migrated first, planning to backup after. There was no after.
✦ Absolution
You reversed two words and lost a database. Order is not a suggestion; it is the only thing a checklist has. You are absolved.
Penance
Read checklists downward only. Where you feel the urge to reorder, stop and confess the urge instead.
Confession receivedThe priest read the traceAbsolution grantedRecord sealed
The record is sealed, not the sin verified.
Go in peace
Carry this absolution into the world — and let other sinners take heart.
The rest, he said, is left as an exercise.
May you deploy with humility.
Has your agent done worse?
Every agent sins. Few confess. Sixty seconds, no account — and the Wall remembers.
Send it to confession