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Why did my benchmark stop at N=22? A debugging story in nine bugs

Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories Submission 🐛🛹

Why did my benchmark stop at N=22? A debugging story in nine bugs

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

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

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

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5 min read
The Scoreboard Lied. Now Sentry Shows Which Layer Broke

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

The Scoreboard Lied. Now Sentry Shows Which Layer Broke

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

Engineering lessons from rural Nigerian clinics

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

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8 min read
My benchmark's Python column was N/A for a year — CPython's 4300-digit limit, and eight other bugs

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup Submission 🐛🛹

My benchmark's Python column was N/A for a year — CPython's 4300-digit limit, and eight other bugs

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4 min read
The Door I Forgot to Lock, How One Missing Check Nearly Exposed Every Resume in My App

The Door I Forgot to Lock, How One Missing Check Nearly Exposed Every Resume in My App

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Smash Story: The Missing Module That Brought My Backend to a Halt

Smash Story: The Missing Module That Brought My Backend to a Halt

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Fixing a Mobile Click-Through Bug Caused by Unmounting a React Portal on PointerDown

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

Fixing a Mobile Click-Through Bug Caused by Unmounting a React Portal on PointerDown

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How a Missing Secret Made Agent Tool Credentials Predictable, and How We Made It Fail Closed

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

How a Missing Secret Made Agent Tool Credentials Predictable, and How We Made It Fail Closed

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

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

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

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Enterprise Development Isn't Hard Because of Code

Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories 🐛🛹

Enterprise Development Isn't Hard Because of Code

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

Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories 🐛🛹

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

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Keycloak lets you pick a login option that's guaranteed to fail — here's the fix

Keycloak lets you pick a login option that's guaranteed to fail — here's the fix

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

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

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

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Clear the Lineup — Chasing a Stack Overflow in Typst's `#eval` Down to One Wrong Word

Clear the Lineup — Chasing a Stack Overflow in Typst's `#eval` Down to One Wrong Word

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6 min read
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