First six months as a dev broke something in production for the first time.

Took me months to get confidence back.

Ouch. I’m grateful my first production break was celebrated by my team. Once we fixed it they took me out for lunch and beer. It was like an inauguration into the team.

@devphobe this is the way. Everyone breaks things. Instead of making the bug they main focus, make the fix the focus and positively encourage people to fix what they broke.

I deployed a bug to prod quite early but the senior just said "My bad, I reviewed it and merged it!" and went "we have a bug in some code I merged" ❤️

The one time I broke prod just cause I didn't wanna wait for a review, and shipped my unreviewed code - it felr way worse.

Quite nice to require reviews to merge because then there's always 2 people to share the blame and the reviewer has an idea of what the bug could be