2026-09-03 09:33 UTC
Developers have really weird ideas.
So developer at work has a server running in java/tomcat starts discussing with me that he wants a cronjob running a full server to start the "server" which he discusses can't be done in the server, because the client has to be started, but he wants to do it on the server, and then it needs to be able to do things in java script that he can't do in java. So basically he wants to have a headless browser with js evaluation that he can start via a cronjob to start his server.
And I'm so confused, why doesn't the server start the server and do the server things? why would a client be needed to start the server? Why can't the server start itself?
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@paul@notnull.space 2026-09-03 12:41
@sotolf@polymaths.social sounds like he has no idea how many servers are in his server.