It Was Just a Patch Update. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . You know those version numbers in libraries and frameworks, right? …
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The Alpine Mirage: How Upgrading Python Broke My Build and Led to a Truer Security Posture
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . The Initial Goal: "Upgrade and Secure" Like many developers, I rece…
# I Fixed a Shutdown Race Condition That Could Leave Bot Processes Running Forever 🐞
This is a submission for * DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup ** powered by Sentry .* Project Overview I maintain StayPresent , an open-source P…
Two exploits, one public API key: the day I attacked my own Supabase app
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . Every app has its rockstar bug. Mine didn't crash, didn't throw, di…
The Day My AI Taught Me That Passing Tests Means Nothing
I never set out to build VentureTwin AI as just another chatbot. The idea was much bigger than answering questions. I wanted to build a digital twin t…
The cleanup that could never run: a silent Web Push leak in Go
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . Nothing reported this bug. No crash, no stack trace, no failing tes…
The rollback endpoint took a deployment ID and did nothing with it
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . Project Overview Staxa is a multi-tenant deployment platform I a…
I Was Filming a Demo of My Monitoring Tool. The Monitor Wasn't Monitoring.
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . The project workers-monitor is a Cloudflare Worker I run to watch a…
The Sentry dashboard was empty for months — here's why (and the 2-line fix that mattered most)
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . Project Overview This backend powers K-XpertAI , the AI coding a…
When Impressive Code Isn't Actually Working: A Vibe Coding Epiphany
- The Setup I've been working on a semantic recall application called VaultAI for AI tools and prompts I've previously used and needed to remember, an…
Fixing Cache Stampede & API Latency Spike in Redis-Backed Dashboards
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . This project is a high-traffic financial affiliate dashboard bui…
My Summer of Sleuthing: 373 Merged PRs and the Bugs That Taught Me Everything
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . "The best debugger is a well-rested mind armed with the right tools…
The Crash That Only Happened Sometimes — A SwiftUI Bug
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . I spent three hours debugging a SwiftUI crash that felt completely …
The None That Broke Permissions: How a Single Null Crashed Hermes Agent Approvals
A tiny missing check, a silent crash, and a denied permission that should have been safe. This is the story of how I fixed it. About me and why this m…
Sentry's Span Hierarchy Exposed a Silent Retry in My 5-Agent Pipeline. One Agent Took 22.6s, the Others Took 5.
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . Project Overview I built an AWS Security Posture Agent : five sp…
Fixing a Live Production AI Agent with Docker, Sentry, and Google AI
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . Project Overview I recently deployed the Dograh AI voice agent (…
Tracing and Resolving a Critical Security Bug in Smart Contract Analysis
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . The Problem During a recent security review, I identified a critica…
*This is a submission for [DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories](https://dev.to/bugsmash) powered by [Sentry](https://sentry.io/).*
The Texture That Vanished I'm 17 and I built a 3D reconstruction pipeline called CODA Forge — it takes a phone rotation video and outputs a photoreali…
The Door I Forgot to Lock, How One Missing Check Nearly Exposed Every Resume in My App
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . Some bugs make noise. They throw errors, they crash a build, they l…
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 106-page PDF and clicked "Ask this book". The scr…
Preventing Focus Loss From Launching a Charged Jump in a Three.js Arcade Game
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . The bug Solstice Leap is a small Three.js arcade game where the …
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 . Project Overview Timeline Studio is a local-first AI video edito…
The bug that only showed up because my test was too fast
A couple hundred milliseconds cost me an hour, and the annoying part is I'd written the fix for it before I even had the bug. I was writing a Testcont…
Keycloak lets you pick a login option that's guaranteed to fail — here's the fix
Project : keycloak/keycloak — the identity and access management server. PR: #51021 , fixing #46481 . The bug : if you write a custom Keycloak Authent…
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 confusing error message . This one is the opposite and i…
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 misreading financial data 1 in 5 times. No crashes.…
Cleaning up Repository Bloat: Removing Redundant requirements.txt
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . Project Overview The project rohithtp-cv is a personal repositor…
The Signal Nobody Heard, Fixing a Silent AbortSignal Bug in OpenClaw
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . Every codebase has that one bug that looks tiny on paper and beh…
The Redis URL That Leaked Its Own Password Into AI Agent Context
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . Project Overview ContextOS is a context operating system for AI …
Preserving Resource Attributes During Span Flattening: A Trace Data Collision Story
Tracing pipelines flatten nested OpenTelemetry data (resource attributes + span attributes) into a single flat record before storage. Simple in theory…