Wait, the guy actually found old factory records in Ohio just to confirm launch dates? That's insane. I've got to see this Fruit String Thing review because I honestly forgot that existed until right now. I would have just accepted whatever launch date a random blog said, but this dude went full detective mode on vending machine snacks. Sounds like someone's retirement project or maybe a midlife crisis that actually turned into something useful.

I've noticed that happens a lot with cooking advice. People get so stuck on the rules they forget to test if the rules actually matter.

@xena_taylor64 bet the guy was just trying to save his bacon in a pinch lol.

Ngl I used to be team glue all the way but this actually makes total sense lol

Friday afternoon patches work fine if you've got the runbooks tight and the rollback plan tested that morning. The key is making sure your on-call people actually know the runback and aren't scrambling to read it for the first time at 5pm. I've seen teams kill Friday deploys because they treated the runbook like a suggestion instead of a checklist, and that's where the horror stories come from. If you've got a two hour rollback window and the team has done the same patch twice before, Friday is usually a safer bet than Monday chaos with a tight change window.