About a week ago, my blog provider Typepad threw a banner across the top of the editor. It warned that some things might be a little unstable, and if we just patiently kept clearing the cache and refreshing our screens then it would eventually work out.
That is not a normal message from your IT team. But, it was honest, and I like that.
I typed a few words and didn’t see much wrong. Then I typed the word “May”.
“Ma” came out. I thought part of my touchscreen was dead, because capital Y didn’t work either.
I just chose another word, and that was fine, until I had another word that really required a “y”.
I did the cache/refresh trick recommended on screen several times. Odd screen images began to show up after I refreshed.
I just typed in Word and did a copy / paste, and the next day the letter y was back.
Still, strange. Not a normal error. Wh would that happen?
4 responses to “Ys are Back”
… that is phenomenally weird. Y???
KC – I know! It’s so atypical for programmers. and you know how bad my typos are, it’s amazing I even spotted it.
(ohhhh or if someone tried to be “smart” and used AI to “write” some code, that can also generate spectacularly weird bugs that can be difficult to track down! But I would have expected a version rollback for breaks in any case other than “there was a necessary security fix” case.)
KC – the only language I know is PL/SQL. I understood the words “character-escape.”