Meows and replies

today's crimes will involve... figuring out how to parse prometheus-style metrics labels

who would win:
an unknown codebase that's missing A Feature™ I want

or

me, silly and naive, with unverified assumptions, that have been later proven false

I did, eventually, win. After completely changing my approach. At least to the limited (so far) extent I could test it.

And I also learned more about the codebase than anticipated. And a feature that I previously thought would be difficult to implement, but not (for me) impossible, I'm now almost certain is hellishly brutal.