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Spent 8 months trying to fix a single bug in my old viral app from 2016
Finally found the issue was a missing semicolon in a config file I had copied from a tutorial, but only after 247 late-night debugging sessions and losing 3 fingernails to stress biting.
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brooket4312d ago
Used to hate on missing semicolon stories but this one actually changed my mind...
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wesleyflores12d ago
Actually give it a little more credit though because those missing semicolon bugs are way harder to spot when you copied the config from a tutorial and just assumed it was right. My buddy runs a small web dev side gig and he spent two weeks chasing a bug that turned out to be a single letter typo in a URL config file. The original tutorial had a lowercase 'a' where it should have been uppercase and his app kept crashing when trying to connect to the database. Sometimes you have to accept that tutorials are just starting points and not gospel truth.
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