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Day 33: pairing is magic and beautiful git diffs

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a silly Rails login bug (or: pairing is magic) On Wednesday morning suddenly I wasn’t able to login in my dev environment, even though it was working in prod and it had worked the day before and I thought I hadn’t made any changes to my login code. The error was really weird though – it was telling me that it was expecting a provider column in my users table (for the OAuth provider), and there wasn’t one! How could this be?? I was sure hadn’t made any changes to that table.
7th Jan 2021

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