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The Optimistic UI Race Condition That Only Showed Up on the Fifth Click

Shubhra Pokhariya2d ago • 5 min read

The Optimistic UI Race Condition That Only Showed Up on the Fifth Click

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. I originally...

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I Fixed a Bug That Lived in FFmpeg for 8 Years.

Umar Pathan3d ago • 9 min read

I Fixed a Bug That Lived in FFmpeg for 8 Years.

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry. ...

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4 Silent Failures, 2 Undocumented APIs, and a Container That Crashed Because of a Missing User Directive

Sarvar Nadaf2d ago • 5 min read

4 Silent Failures, 2 Undocumented APIs, and a Container That Crashed Because of a Missing User Directive

What happened when I tried to deploy a CrewAI agent to AWS Bedrock AgentCore. Every error was a 200 ...

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Jerry Ran Out of Numbers But Drank All the Punch

Ashley Childress12h ago • 9 min read

Jerry Ran Out of Numbers But Drank All the Punch

A legacy Java service exhausted a finite identifier range, trapped HikariCP connections in an intent...

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Clear the Lineup — Astro's `popover` Attribute Had No Way to Say False

Jiwon Yoon5d ago • 6 min read

Clear the Lineup — Astro's `popover` Attribute Had No Way to Say False

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup. Project Overview Astr...

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Clear the Lineup — doesNotEqual was always true for single-select survey answers in Formbricks

Jiwon Yoon5d ago • 6 min read

Clear the Lineup — doesNotEqual was always true for single-select survey answers in Formbricks

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup. Project...

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The Hardest System I Ever Built Was for Patients Who Could Not Afford for It to Fail

Laurina Ayarah4d ago • 8 min read

The Hardest System I Ever Built Was for Patients Who Could Not Afford for It to Fail

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. There is a versio...

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The smolagents bug that made my agent retry the same valid code three times

Himanshu Kumar3d ago • 4 min read

The smolagents bug that made my agent retry the same valid code three times

Third entry in the DEV x Sentry Bug Smash. Entry 1 was a crash with a confusing message. Entry 2 was...

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One line of math froze my AI agent forever. The timeout watched and did nothing.

Himanshu Kumar4d ago • 5 min read

One line of math froze my AI agent forever. The timeout watched and did nothing.

This is my second entry for the DEV x Sentry Bug Smash challenge. Entry #1 was a crash with a...

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My dashboard took 7.6 seconds to render fifteen numbers 🐌

Soumyadeep Dey 9h ago • 11 min read

My dashboard took 7.6 seconds to render fifteen numbers 🐌

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry. Not fifteen...

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The Timeline Was Split, but the Audio Wasn't: Fixing Source Offsets in a Browser Video Editor

MartinDelophy3d ago • 4 min read

The Timeline Was Split, but the Audio Wasn't: Fixing Source Offsets in a Browser Video Editor

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry. ...

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The bug that never crashed: how I fuzzed an AI's own code sandbox and found it lying to its model

Himanshu Kumar1d ago • 5 min read

The bug that never crashed: how I fuzzed an AI's own code sandbox and found it lying to its model

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. The bug....

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Smash Stories: The Bug That Whispered for Two Weeks Before I Heard It

Okeke Chukwudubem4d ago • 4 min read

Smash Stories: The Bug That Whispered for Two Weeks Before I Heard It

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. My AI agent was.....

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The date string that invented $725 in a synthetic margin report

Mike Riggs3d ago • 4 min read

The date string that invented $725 in a synthetic margin report

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup, powered by Sentry. ...

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Smash Story: my rank tracker spent weeks reporting ">100" for keywords sitting on page 2

RankLoop6d ago • 2 min read

Smash Story: my rank tracker spent weeks reporting ">100" for keywords sitting on page 2

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. The bug....

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Preventing Focus Loss From Launching a Charged Jump in a Three.js Arcade Game

george2d ago • 3 min read

Preventing Focus Loss From Launching a Charged Jump in a Three.js Arcade Game

How Solstice Leap stopped treating lost browser focus as an intentional jump release.

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Instrumenting a Keycloak SPI provider so the next silent JDBC bug doesn't need a code review to find it

Jihed Ben Arfa3d ago • 2 min read

Instrumenting a Keycloak SPI provider so the next silent JDBC bug doesn't need a code review to find it

Project: keycloak-spi-workbench — custom Keycloak SPI providers, one of them a read-only user storag...

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Preserving Resource Attributes During Span Flattening: A Trace Data Collision Story

Rohith Matam6d ago • 2 min read

Preserving Resource Attributes During Span Flattening: A Trace Data Collision Story

Tracing pipelines flatten nested OpenTelemetry data (resource attributes + span attributes) into a.....

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Clear the Lineup: Killing a Silent, Three-Cause Rendering Bug in a Flutter + Mapbox Noise Map

Anietimfon Effiong4d ago • 3 min read

Clear the Lineup: Killing a Silent, Three-Cause Rendering Bug in a Flutter + Mapbox Noise Map

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry. ...

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The Contours That Refused to Exist: A Three-Bug Pileup in a Flutter Noise Map

Anietimfon Effiong5d ago • 5 min read

The Contours That Refused to Exist: A Three-Bug Pileup in a Flutter Noise Map

The Contours That Refused to Exist: A Three-Bug Pileup in a Flutter Noise Map The...

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Fix: WebP og:images silently break Medium imports and social previews

DEVALAND5d ago • 2 min read

Fix: WebP og:images silently break Medium imports and social previews

A silent bug: WebP og:images and hero <img>s don't import into Medium or render social previews. The...

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The Advisory Said It Was Fixed. I Didn't Believe It Until I Broke It Myself.

zowskyy6d ago • 4 min read

The Advisory Said It Was Fixed. I Didn't Believe It Until I Broke It Myself.

Update: This investigation spawned a complete stress-testing toolkit. See the apktool-diagnostics...

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Enterprise Development Isn't Hard Because of Code

Pratik Dhore4d ago • 3 min read

Enterprise Development Isn't Hard Because of Code

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. When I first...

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Nothing Crashed. Nothing Errored. My CPU Sat at 390% for an Hour.

Vasyl2d ago • 4 min read

Nothing Crashed. Nothing Errored. My CPU Sat at 390% for an Hour.

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. A user uploaded a...

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Tech Articles

The Optimistic UI Race Condition That Only Showed Up on the Fifth Click

I Fixed a Bug That Lived in FFmpeg for 8 Years.

4 Silent Failures, 2 Undocumented APIs, and a Container That Crashed Because of a Missing User Directive

Jerry Ran Out of Numbers But Drank All the Punch

Clear the Lineup — Astro's `popover` Attribute Had No Way to Say False

Clear the Lineup — doesNotEqual was always true for single-select survey answers in Formbricks

The Hardest System I Ever Built Was for Patients Who Could Not Afford for It to Fail

The smolagents bug that made my agent retry the same valid code three times

One line of math froze my AI agent forever. The timeout watched and did nothing.

My dashboard took 7.6 seconds to render fifteen numbers 🐌

The Timeline Was Split, but the Audio Wasn't: Fixing Source Offsets in a Browser Video Editor

The bug that never crashed: how I fuzzed an AI's own code sandbox and found it lying to its model

Smash Stories: The Bug That Whispered for Two Weeks Before I Heard It

The date string that invented $725 in a synthetic margin report

Smash Story: my rank tracker spent weeks reporting ">100" for keywords sitting on page 2

Preventing Focus Loss From Launching a Charged Jump in a Three.js Arcade Game

Instrumenting a Keycloak SPI provider so the next silent JDBC bug doesn't need a code review to find it

Preserving Resource Attributes During Span Flattening: A Trace Data Collision Story

Clear the Lineup: Killing a Silent, Three-Cause Rendering Bug in a Flutter + Mapbox Noise Map

The Contours That Refused to Exist: A Three-Bug Pileup in a Flutter Noise Map

Fix: WebP og:images silently break Medium imports and social previews

The Advisory Said It Was Fixed. I Didn't Believe It Until I Broke It Myself.

Enterprise Development Isn't Hard Because of Code

Nothing Crashed. Nothing Errored. My CPU Sat at 390% for an Hour.