• hark@lemmy.world
    7·
    19 hours ago

    Laying in bed thinking about the problem, “oh, that must be it!” Jump excitedly out of bed to work on the problem, “welp, that wasn’t it.”

  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    23 hours ago

    My friend just finished a couple solid days of debugging where there turned out to be a whole series of problems that looked like one bug, so even though he kept fixing things the app still kept not working. Finally hacked his way out of that jungle into the bright light of day.

  • zqwzzle@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    1 day ago

    Reminder to all you chaos monkeys: use [Object object] on web forms occasionally for a bit of fun.

    Edit: and to remind typescript devs they’re just transpiling to JavaScript

  • luciole (he/him)@beehaw.org
    8·
    1 day ago

    Aw come on, debugging can be fun. I love the investigative vibe of it. You get to be your favorite detective. You start asking around. You pin the the culprit. You get closer and closer to damning evidence. And then Bam! Fixed. Another mystery solved. Mine’s Columbo.

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
      7·
      1 day ago

      I love asking,

      “What sick fuck thought this was an acceptable solution?”

      And a few moments later:

      “Oh. It was me.”

    • Sergio@slrpnk.net
      5·
      1 day ago

      Agreed, for any non-trivial bug I just start dumping text into a word file to track what I’m doing. Like: error messages, values of variables at key places, libraries used, URLs of documentation and background reading and stackoverflow pages looked at, test fixes and their effects, etc. Then if someone asks me wtf I’ve been doing all day I can easily show them. Also, if I have the same problem a couple months later I can remind myself.

  • tahoe@lemmy.world
    17·
    1 day ago

    I’ve been trying and failing to fix an email being sent to spam issue since last fucking Monday (with all the SPF, DMARC and DKIM garbage).

    I want to die.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      14·
      1 day ago

      SPF, DMARC and DKIM

      Ironically, spam generators are experts EXPERTS in this trash fire of a topic

  • JATth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    My favorite so far:

    $ gdb -ex 'file /bin/gdb'
run
corrupted double-linked list

Thread 1 "gdb" received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
  • rcbrk@lemmy.mlEnglish
    13·
    1 day ago

    LoL, blue shirt has no persistence. Anger and giving up gets you nowhere.
    XKCD #349 - "Success": [Four full-width panels arranged vertically, each with a label for number of hours elapsed, with a title above the stack of panels.]; Title: As a project wears on, standards for success slip lower and lower.; [Megan is standing behind Cueball, watching him as he sits at a desk working on a desktop computer on the desk.]; Label: 0 hours; Cueball: Okay, I should be able to dual-boot BSD soon.; [Cueball is on the floor fiddling with the open tower in front of him. Megan is not shown in the panel, but may be off-panel unless Cueball is talking to himself.]; Label: 6 hours; Cueball: I'll be happy if I can get the system working like it was when I started.; [Cueball is standing in front of the computer, which now has a laptop plugged into the tower. Megan is still not shown in the panel, but may be off-panel again.]; Label: 10 hours; Cueball: Well, the desktop's a lost cause, but I think I can fix the problems the laptop's developed.; [Cueball and Megan are swimming in the sea; an island and a beach can be seen in the distance.]; Label: 24 hours; Cueball: If we're lucky, the sharks will stay away until we reach shallow water.; Megan: If we make it back alive, you're never upgrading anything again.

    Title text:

    40% of OpenBSD installs lead to shark attacks. It’s their only standing security issue.