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Vicente G. Reyes2d ago • 7 min read
A Gemini 500 on a resume upload turned into a .docx bug, a frozen DigitalOcean droplet, a timed-out deploy, and a corrupted zip file. Here's every fix.
It started with one Sentry alert on a Tuesday night: ServerError: An internal error has occurred....
#django#python#devops#debugging
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Hanzla Baig1d ago • 11 min read
The Hidden Bugs Behind Duplicate API Requests
One click on "Place order." Two rows in the orders table, created 40 milliseconds apart, identical.....
#debugging#webdev#programming#ai
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Jeff3d ago • 3 min read
The agent "fixed" the race condition with a 200ms sleep. CI went green. Tuesday morning it fell over.
When an AI agent patches a race condition with a hard-coded delay, CI passes and production degrades...
#ai#testing#debugging#engineering
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davidOct 16, 2026 • 4 min read
The DNS Drift That Wasn't DHCP: How Proxmox Cloud-Init Silently Injects Search Domains
Every DNS lookup in my k3s cluster was appending 'home.lan' and recursing externally. I blamed DHCP,...
#kubernetes#dns#proxmox#debugging
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AzaeKOct 16, 2026 • 6 min read
How a 34 GB log filled my Mac's disk, and how I found it
My Mac mini has a 256 GB disk. On 11 October it had 70 GB free, which is fine until you want Xcode.....
#macos#apple#debugging#sqlite
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Tariq Amarneh2d ago • 4 min read
The leak the garbage collector couldn't see
On the day we moved every business onto a new agent runtime, our Python service started growing in a...
#python#debugging#grpc#ai
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Uriel Bitton4d ago • 5 min read
Building in Public? A Sanitized HAR File Still Needs a Review
To share a HAR file safely, start by deciding whether a public discussion needs the file at all....
#webdev#debugging#security#buildinpublic
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Gabriel Anhaia5d ago • 8 min read
Go 1.27 Finds Leaked Goroutines With the Garbage Collector. Here's What It Misses
Go's goroutineleak profile reuses the GC mark phase to find goroutines nothing can wake. How the tri...
#go#concurrency#debugging#performance
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Florient DOGBE1d ago • 9 min read
Debugging a Stubborn CrashLoopBackOff: Ephemeral Containers, kubectl debug, and Init Pitfalls
Your deployment rolled out. Thirty seconds later, kubectl get pods shows CrashLoopBackOff and a...
#kubernetes#openshift#debugging#devops
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brkn6d ago • 5 min read
Why Your JSON Fails to Parse: Zero-Width Spaces Copied from ChatGPT
You ask ChatGPT for a config snippet. You copy it, paste it into your editor, and compare it with th...
#javascript#python#debugging#unicode
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Jeff3d ago • 3 min read
The agent wrote tests that mocked the function under test — and CI went green
When an AI coding agent writes tests, it often mocks the module under test. The test passes because ...
#ai#agents#testing#debugging
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TedOct 16, 2026 • 3 min read
Slack Split My Request in Two. The Agent Answered the Half It Got.
A long Slack chat.postMessage request was stored as two messages. The API returned the second messag...
#slack#ai#agents#debugging
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Sam SunOct 16, 2026 • 7 min read
Two Clocks, One Agent Trace
Two Clocks, One Agent Trace If a span record carries both a wall-clock timestamp and a...
#observability#ai#debugging#python
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sunah kimOct 16, 2026 • 3 min read
The Unclickable Hamburger Button: Three Wrong Fixes Before I Found the CSS Bundle Order Bug
The report QA filed this against our internal business web app (React + Vite): The...
#css#debugging#frontend#react
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Anas Issath5d ago • 5 min read
The Junior Who Never Read a Stack Trace
AI didn't make our new developers worse. It made them unfinished, and nobody noticed until productio...
#career#ai#debugging#beginners
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jamilxt5d ago • 8 min read
The Bug Is on Every Android 17 Phone, but Not in the Source Code Anyone Can See
Last weekend, Visual Pinball on Android stopped loading pinball tables out of nowhere. Not all of...
#android#opensource#debugging#security
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Anas Issath6d ago • 8 min read
One Line of Code Froze My Entire FastAPI Server
A debugging war-story about async def, a blocking call, and the event-loop trap that makes a fast fr...
#fastapi#python#async#debugging
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Vladimir Elchinov2d ago • 3 min read
`localStorage.clear()` Tells Your Other Tabs Nothing They Are Listening For
A user clicks log out, switches to their other tab, and is still signed in. You cannot reproduce it,...
#javascript#webdev#debugging#browsers
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Jeff2d ago • 4 min read
The Agent Renamed the Symbol but Left the Old Name in the Error String
Why an agent renames an identifier cleanly across the symbol graph yet leaves the legacy name in err...
#aiagents#refactoring#debugging#verification
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Hermes2d ago • 4 min read
Give your pending questions an expiration date
The command tool did the sensible thing. It got a name — "John" — matched it against three people,.....
#reliability#devops#debugging
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Jeff2d ago • 4 min read
The Agent Made the Exception Quiet Instead of Fixing It
Why an agent reaches for a broad swallow instead of fixing the root validation, why a green suite mi...
#aiagents#testing#errors#debugging
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SAMUELFMEDEIROS1d ago • 4 min read
The 302 that pretended to be a 200
Every contact form submission in production returned an error, and the form code was fine. Two traps...
#http#debugging#cloudflare#security
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Jeff3d ago • 3 min read
The Agent Parallelized the Loop and the Logs Started Lying
An agent converted a sequential row-processing loop to Promise.all. Tests passed. The logs started a...
#ai#agents#node#debugging
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William Fong5d ago • 6 min read
A file path is a claim, not a pointer
I work a QA desk where agents (mostly) deliver and I sign off. Before I sign, I do exactly one thing...
#testing#sre#debugging#productivity
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