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Title: Ask Reuben 218 - It's The Environment, Stupid Post by: Reuben B. on April 26, 2024, 01:33:29 am The title for this week's article is a snowclone of the phrase "It’s The Economy, Stupid." , a phrase that was coined during Bill Clinton’s election campaign (it even has its own Wikipedia page) and has come to be repeated in popular culture with the word “economy” substituted for another word. It is a phrase that enters my head when I take something that I know works, move it or change it in some way to use something new, and then hit an initially baffling error.
In such circumstances it is typically because an environment variable is not set correctly. The saying "It's The Environment, Stupid" helps make me make sure that I check that Environment Variables have the value I expect them to be. The risqué nature of the phrase helping it stick in my mind and execute some steps quickly to compare environments before I go off down the wrong path. Read more at https://4js.com/ask-reuben/ig-218/ |