#at least with java i could just find replace a string in a bunch of tests

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trying to fix vulnerabilities on a codebase and finding that it requires major (and breaking) version upgrades for one or two important packages, subsequently having to resolve all of the cascading dependency conflicts, finally running npm start and seeing it crash because all of the configs had minor changes that there's not an easy way to resolve, so having to go through the migration docs and do it by hand, trying npm start over and over and over again and googling the error messages until there's an error the internet doesn't seem to have seen before, but deciding to go home since it's past 5 pm

makes me feel like a pig rummaging through the dirt looking for truffles except there's only one truffle and it's very deep in the ground and in the meantime im just getting dirt everywhere and fucking up the local microorganism ecosystem