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thakoppno a day ago

That part stood out to me too. However this article was from 2018, not last week it seems to me.

We did live debugging like this at the time, wouldn’t today.

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ejfox a day ago | parent | next [-]

agreed, this is an artifact, I would do it very differently today

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jauntywundrkind a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It sure seemed like there were a bunch of moments of live updating? Discussion with Chris (producer), saying, ok, it's updated now, try this. Yes a lot was data updates but there were a bunch of other times it seemed more systems code etc.

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mkehrt a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm baffled by the claim that live debugging of this sort was ok in 2018. That wasn't that long ago. In 2018 we definitely knew this was a terrible idea.

	▲	thakoppno 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The stack described in this article would not have been extremely stable if memory serves. It seems likely to me the setup is one server, one client. In the live TV setting described, these sort of tactics seem like a decent trade. There’s a director of the show who can work around any technical problems encountered on the big board.