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Debugging is a method
I watched somebody spend two hours on a bug by changing things and refreshing, and it took me a while to work out that nobody had ever told them there was a method, because nobody ever told me either.
Debugging
All writing →5 posts filed under Debugging, newest first.
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git bisect
Somebody says the thing worked in June, there are 900 commits since June, and the temptation is to sit and think really hard, which is exactly the wrong instinct because a computer can do this in ten questions.
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The indexer
A price was right on the product page and wrong on the category page for eleven days, and the answer was not in any of the code I'd been reading, because the two pages were reading from different tables.
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position: sticky and the parent that eats it
It does exactly what it says, and fails completely silently when it can't. The culprit is nearly always a clearfix somebody wrote in 2014. Sometimes me.
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View source
The web taught a generation of us by being readable and I'm not sure the thing replacing it has that property, which might matter more than it sounds like it does.