Changing stuff and seeing what happens. Yeah, about sums up my “debugging”.
I retired about a year ago, so the left-most book on the middle row is about me.
congrats wisened/enrichend early retirement one.
The guy who wrote this is gone
I’ve gotten about 1,000 alert emails in the last 8 hours because of this
The truck is to be the guy who is gone
Guys who are here hate this one trick!
Changing stuff and seeing what happens!
The best part is remembering every change to revert it after XY change does it right.
2, 3, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are my usuals.
Nobody going to admit to being the pigeon? Because that’s me.
I’m sorta like the pigeon but more just a vague understanding of the last critical thing that was asked of me.
I’m too seen here. Time to hide.
Bingo!
The “Forgetting How Your Own Code Works” is real. I’ve looked at code, thought to myself “what fcking idiot wrote this garbage”, only to see my own name next to it. It’s a very humbling experience
All the purple ones
Blaming the user. Always
I’m the user
I spend a bunch of time in log reviews in my current role. “Googling the error message” image is literally hanging on my office wall.
Blame user
I’m going for the Dr. Venkman combo: “Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!”
Frog, dog, and kitten, over and over and over in completely arbitrary orderings.
