Bug Hunts: A Series

Adventures in debugging.



A Broken Heart

January 31, 2026

Or, getting a 100x speedup with one dumb line of code.

You always know it’s a good bug when your first reaction is, “How could this even happen?” The other day, I was refining the dashboard of a web app we’re working on – as you do – and I noticed it was taking forever to load. Like, it had been...

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The Great Bug Hunt

May 30, 2018

A crashing Xbox proves hard to debug.

A fun thing about programming is that most days, you make progress. Maybe you fix some issues, maybe you add a feature, maybe you build towards something bigger. Your code moves ever forward. Until it doesn’t. On occasion, you will hit a Bug. Not a mundane bug, some trifle you...

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