This is a situation I have written about so many times on the blog over the years. It happens in all sorts of different ways, but it‘s ultimately the same pattern every time. You figure something out that is absolutely crucial to everything, will make everything much much better, and you prove it and get it working, and somehow the world finds a way to block you, usually in a very offensive way.
The latest incarnation of this "phenomenon" is in the server software for my publishing tool. In the early days it was difficult to see exactly how the software would evolve, it‘s often the way with new software in uncharted territory, you have to make some guesses, some approximations, or you will be spinning your wheels for eternity trying to get everything perfect. In this instance it was about how we map a user to a repo. I decided to make the simplification that 1 user has 1 repo. If you want to have several repos, then you create several users.
I knew eventually I would need to change this assumption, but since the code is mostly object oriented and designed rather well, it's not so difficult to change this in the future. Well that time came and over the past week I made the necessary changes to change the core to be able to have 1 user mapped to many repos. In a way it seems like a big change, right at the center of the software, but when you design things well, it's not such a big change. The blast radius was very contained and I was able to get it working within a couple of days.
The very day I got it working, in fact pretty much the same hour, things in my world started to go sideways. I've written a bit about it in some short posts the past few days. Anyhow it‘s culminated in a power cut and internet connectivity issues, along with all sorts of very strange "synchronicities". Now I have internet again, but guess what, it only works for 30 seconds and then turns off for 30 seconds, over and over and over again. And you want to know another strange thing, the place where I get the internet has a rule that you can only connect one device to the internet. Kind of weird right?
It gets weirder. In the local mall yesterday, the security / doorman bloke as I was leaving quite clearly said the word "layer" as I was leaving the mall to me. Not "liar", but very clearly "layer". What‘s weird is that the feature I added right before the multi-target users was a render layers feature. I had actually added it a few weeks ago, but I documented it in the main README just a few days ago. You know in some ways, it‘s nice to get some recognition, if indeed he has somehow been looking at my code, because it‘s a very cool feature, and programming software on your own is such a thankless task it's insane, but it's a private fucking repo. How is the security guard at the mall reading my code?
You are probably thinking this is just some random freak incident, a "co-incidence", but this sort of thing happens ALL THE FUCKING TIME.
Somehow the world around me mirrors the code I write. You can call it woo, or nefarious, or whatever, but it keeps happening, and I suspect it's only going to get worse.
Abundance with scare city sprinkles. There sure are a lot of sprinkles lately.