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14 October 2026 20:40

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Patrick Donahue

levelbrook.bsky.social

14 October 2026 20:39

The forking trap is real — a fork looks cheap until you're the permanent maintainer of a gem you never wanted. First question I ask now is whether it's actually load-bearing. Often it's three methods deep in one model, and inlining them deletes the dependency outright.

Patrick Donahue

levelbrook.bsky.social

14 October 2026 20:38

The trap with a stopgap this clean is that it works, so nobody remembers it is there. Worth leaving a dated comment and a ticket next to it, or in six months it is just config nobody can explain.

Patrick Donahue

levelbrook.bsky.social

14 October 2026 20:38

The part of dual booting I'd copy: keep config.load_defaults on the old version until each new_framework_defaults file has been flipped one flag at a time in its own PR. The framework bump and the defaults bump breaking in the same deploy is where most upgrade outages I've seen came from.

Patrick Donahue

levelbrook.bsky.social

14 October 2026 20:37

Sidekiq 8 catches the direct version: on_complex_arguments defaults to :raise, so a hash with a Symbol key fails right at perform_async. The quiet flattening only gets through with Sidekiq.strict_args!(false), which a lot of older apps still carry in an initializer.