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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That happens so often that checking for spelling is the first thing I do now when something goes wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yep, or go proofread some JSON…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Or check formatting in yaml

Fucking yaml...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I just have a spell checker enabled in vscode

So helpful for dynamic languages that can't detect undeclared variables (looking at you JS)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Yeah, spell checker is the winning move here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

I'm ashamed to admit how many times a basic english spell checker in my IDE has saved my bacon.