Fixing a Memory Leak in React by Cleaning Up useEffect
Project Overview The project is a React-based web application that fetches data from a REST API and displays it in a dynamic dashboard. Users can navi…
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Restoring Codebase Harmony
The Chaotic Bug: The Infinite State Loop & Memory Leak In a real-time clinical AI health suite, high-frequency telemetry streaming (such as 60Hz E…
Memory Leak & 8-Second Diagnostic Crush
Every bug has a story. Here is the technical breakdown of how we caught a cascading React state re-render storm, eliminated a 1.4GB memory leak using …
Fixing Exact Package Search Relevance in npmx
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . Project Overview npmx is an open-source alternative interface fo…
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 contributor…
The bug report was a hallucination. The bugs it found were real.
A paying customer sent me proof that my MCP server was telling their AI agent to exfiltrate their private notes. The proof was detailed. It was intern…
Windows Said No: The Long Path Bug That Broke Vector Storage in Cognee
Some bugs only appear when you have a long path, a Windows machine, and a vector database that spawns a subprocess. This is the story of the one that …
You Know What Happens When There's a Bug in Authentication? Absolutely Nothing.
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . Everything Stops You know what happens when there's a bug in authen…
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? …
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…
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…
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 …
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 error…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…