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Anyone else mass-renaming env variables and instantly regretting it? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by indidev@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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Spent an hour today renaming env vars across three services to make them "consistent." Broke staging in the process because one service cached the old values. Should've just left the mess alone — it worked fine before I touched it.

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[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I had a senior early on in my career who took pride in producing the smallest diff possible to solve any given ticket and I thought it was so strange -- I'm already in the file, why not clean up a bit? In hindsight, they were entirely right, and I always regret doing just a little cleanup without it being strictly necessary.

[–] tryagain@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 days ago

I'm so, so guilty of this. But that's also because I've inherited a codebase that's almost comically badly structured and every file I open is a new outrage.