Why my biggest embarrassment was also one of my greatest learning experiences in Programming!
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . The background This happened almost twenty years ago, in the year…
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I installed a crash reporter and it crashed my app 100% of the time
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash : Smash Stories. TL;DR. I wired Sentry into my Android app behind a careful guard so that a build wi…
Eleven tables, zero indices, and the observability I added afterwards found three more bugs
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash : Clear the Lineup. TL;DR. My app recomputes every coaching verdict from raw training logs on read.…
The same Rust gave two different answers, and neither matched JavaScript
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . The setup I was porting TinyColor , a fifteen-year-old JavaScript…
My security hook silently stopped guarding. The bug was one line of encoding.
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . Project Overview I run a set of local policy guards around an…
Sentry Saved Our Users When the API Melted: Fixing a Production-Stopping Schema Drift on CryptoPulse Terminal
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . Project Overview CryptoPulse Terminal is an ultra-lightweight,…
You Don’t Need to Be a Developer to Contribute to Open Source
The people who make open source work aren't just the ones writing code. Some of them write the words that make the code make sense. I spent years as…
The API promised industry keywords. Modern sites kept returning [].
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . The quietest kind of production bug The endpoint was healthy. Pay…
The Day I Became a Bug Hunter
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . Did anyone ask for a bug hunter? No? Well, here I am. This is an…
dev.to's Dashboard Can't Count Its Own Posts
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . Project Overview forem is the open source platform behind dev.…
Fixing a UI State Bug in Joplin: Preventing Tag Operations on Deleted Notes
Open source isn't only about building new features—it’s also about making software more reliable by fixing the small issues that affect the user exp…
I solved a 5 year old bug
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . Introduction Let me start by saying I am an Open-source contribut…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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 too…
How Sentry Keeps PromptDev Running Smoothly in Production
Building PromptDev ( https://promptdev.site ), a sandbox for developers to construct, stack, and benchmark system instructions, requires a solid err…
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…
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 reposit…
I Read All 70 Past DEV Challenges + 542 Winning Submissions - Here's the Bug Smash Playbook
I spent the last few days doing something slightly obsessive: I opened every single past challenge on dev.to/challenges , clicked into each one, fou…
Matrix Chess Club Bot
See my thinking index.html html <!DOCTYPE html> Matrix Chess Club Bot CHESS CLUB BOT Futuristic matrix vibes, bubble letters, and an icosahedr…