{"id":21601,"date":"2019-10-03T18:02:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T18:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thatweb.dev\/?p=21601"},"modified":"2020-06-09T11:42:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T11:42:20","slug":"copy-and-paste-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatweb.dev\/blog\/copy-and-paste-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Copy and paste fail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I spent a good 7 hours finding code from a mothballed work project onto one of my personal Namecheap servers with the aim of having a working demo on this site.<\/p>\n

The last time I had accessed the code was about a year and a half ago and since the project was shelved internally the test database had been deleted.  This presented an opportunity for me to move code from one area to another, rebuild a database and familiarise myself with Symfony.<\/p>\n

My plan was to use my home PC to edit the code but connect to the database on the Namecheap server via SSH. I was successful in setting up the MySQL database on the server, getting MySQL workbench to connect and read\/write to the database, everything was looking good.<\/p>\n

Then came my down fall, I installed PuTTY to connect via SSH, I followed the very helpful Namecheap guide on how connect via SSH using keys<\/a> every step of the way, copy and pasting keys, server credentials, port numbers etc.  until I got to the console Window:<\/p>\n

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As I had been successfully copy and pasting my way through the guide it was second nature to keep doing it as I was in the flow, I am familiar with terminals not indicating that you are putting in your password, such as GitHub in Visual Studio Code, so when I copy and pasted in my login and passphrase and nothing was appearing I assumed all was well.<\/p>\n

3 hours later and repeated creation of keys, copy and pasting in details and numerous forums and guides I was at a loss as to why it wasn’t working, until I accidentally it the keyboard when on console window.<\/p>\n

A wave of relief and realisation of my own stupidity hit me as to why it wasn’t working, all this time I hadn’t been putting in my login credentials and I assume that I wasn’t doing anything wrong.  I wasn’t receiving any feedback from the system and coupled with my past experience with Visual Studio Code terminal, I assumed that I had made a mistake further up in the process.<\/p>\n

On reflection this is a good example of a user using a system in a way that probably wasn’t anticipated with no feedback that they weren’t putting in information that may prevent them from progressing.  If there has been a text warning after I had hit enter informing me that I had left the field blank I would seen my error straight away.<\/p>\n

Tldr: Turns out using a short cut I that use everyday (CTRL+C & CTRL+V) actually added 3 hours to my day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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