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I'm a Dev Who Barely Knows the Kernel. Here's How I'm Learning How to Track a Packet with pwru
Hello, I'm Maneshwar. I'm building git-lrc, a Micro AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. It is free and source-available on Github. Star git-lr…
The Rubric Line That Sent Me Down a Three-Layer Debugging Rabbit Hole
Two days before my hackathon deadline, I re-read the judging criteria for the track I was submitting to and found a sentence I'd apparently skipped th…
You Deleted It. The Crawler Still Sees It.
I removed two listings from a directory site I run. Not for a small reason — they failed the one promise the directory exists to make. The kind of rem…
Smash Story: The Demo Script That Out-Debugged My Test Suite
This is a Smash Stories submission for the DEV Summer Bug Smash : a debugging story about the gap between "all tests pass" and "it actually works" — a…
My Demo Script Found a Production Bug on Its First Run: A Tiny Post-Mortem
I built a demo script to show off a project. It failed on step 2 — and in doing so, it found a real bug that had been sitting in the codebase the whol…
Why did my benchmark stop at N=22? A debugging story in nine bugs
Submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash — Smash Stories track. There was a file in my repo called run_benchmark_1_22.py . Not 1 to 24, which is what the…
My benchmark's Python column was N/A for a year — CPython's 4300-digit limit, and eight other bugs
Submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash — Clear the Lineup track. The codebase a2a-benchmark is my multi-language A2A (Agent-to-Agent) performance suite…
My benchmark's Python column was N/A for a year — CPython's 4300-digit limit, and eight other bugs
Submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash — Clear the Lineup track. The codebase a2a-benchmark is my multi-language A2A (Agent-to-Agent) performance suite…
Kickoff to Summer Bug Smash Challenge
Hey Dev Community, I'm gearing up to participate in the upcoming Summer Bug Smash starting July 14th! As an incoming New Grad Software Engineer, my go…
A stranger fixed my bug. Then I found out he fixed the wrong half — and it still worked.
Someone opened a pull request against my Safari MCP server last week. Three functions, same treatment each, clean write-up, all CI green. It fixed a r…
Why We Silently Drop Clicks for Paused Campaigns (Instead of Returning 404)
This article was originally published on Jo4 Blog . A brand pauses their affiliate campaign. What should happen when clicks and conversions still come…
Redbelly Network Troubleshooting: Fixes for the 21 Most Common Developer Errors
I have been building on Redbelly Network for a while now, and the same pattern kept repeating: I would hit an error, spend an hour on trial and error,…
Meta Pixel not firing? The 6 real causes, in the order to check them
"The Meta Pixel isn't firing" is one of the most common things I get called in to fix. The frustrating part is that "the pixel is installed" and "the …
How to Test Slack Webhooks Locally
The Challenge of Testing Slack Webhooks Locally Testing Slack webhooks locally is deceptively tricky. Slack needs to reach your handler over the inter…
How to locate the input position on macOS, and what it took to get it right
Paste Switch has a small overlay that appears when I press the shortcut to cycle through recent clipboard items. The overlay should appear near the pl…
Osloq — ให้ AI reproduction เวลาเกิด bug
Osloq — ใช้ AI หาสาเหตุ bug แทน เวลา AI coding tools เสนอจะ "fix bug ให้" — เราได้แต่กด Accept หรือไม่ก็ Reject สองปุ่ม สองทางเลือก แต่เราไม่เคยรู้ว่า…
The Safari MCP Server Could Change How Developers Debug Websites
Apple shipped an official Safari MCP server in Safari Technology Preview 247, and it signals a real shift in how AI agents interact with browsers for …
Debugging Go With Delve: Beyond fmt.Println
Book: The Complete Guide to Go Programming Also by me: Hexagonal Architecture in Go — the companion book in the Thinking in Go series My project: Herm…
I Forgot Which AI Tool Built My Project — So I Investigated Like a Detective
A few days ago I had a small panic moment that I think a lot of developers juggling multiple AI coding tools will recognize. I'm building a membership…
How Microsoft Excel Quietly Breaks Your JSON Imports (And How to Fix It)
If you have ever built an application or pipeline that accepts CSV uploads, you have probably run into mysterious parsing errors. Everything looks per…
When --cap-drop ALL Broke the Gate Socket
The dogfood run went green. The gate had governed zero calls. That is the agent-governance-plane's entire job: run an AI coding agent inside a sandbox…
Hiring Tip: Pair Program on Open Source Bugs
Hiring Tip: Pair Program on Open Source Bugs to Ship Faster We recently watched a junior engineer spend three weeks reading a tutorial series before t…
How I Fixed Canonical URLs Pointing to Localhost in Next.js
Next.js sites using process.env.SITE_URL || 'http://localhost:3000' as a canonical URL fallback will fail Google indexing entirely. The fix: one centr…
Skills Are a Mess. Let's Fix That.
Skills Are a Mess. Let's Fix That. Here's the problem: you write a skill for zeroclaw. It works locally. You push it. Someone else tries to install it…
The RL Flywheel That Actually Works
The RL Flywheel That Actually Works Here's what's breaking: You've got a reinforcement learning setup that trains, validates, deploys, and then... not…
When Soldering Doesn't Fix It: Swap the MCU
A hardware-debugging technique that uses your portable firmware codebase as the diagnostic tool. Plus the deeper bug it exposed once I got past the ha…
How to Fix CUDA Out of Memory Errors in Stable Diffusion WebUI
You finally got the WebUI running. You queue up a 1024x1024 generation, hit Generate, and a few seconds later your terminal vomits RuntimeError: CUDA …
Stop Putting dd() Everywhere Debug the Database From the Source Instead
Every backend developer has done this at some point. A request fails. Something is not inserting into the database. And suddenly the codebase turns in…
A Production Python Telegram Bot Was Crashing Every 2 Hours. The Fix Was 18 Lines.
"If you see cascading errors, find the first thing that fails and stop reading the log there. Everything after the first failure is the system reactin…