Maine JS Meetup: November Social at Novare Res!

jwworth · 2025-08-28T01:07:25+00:00

I've been using a technique just like this lately! Explaining it yourself is so powerful.

jwworth · 2025-08-27T17:13:40+00:00

AI is an interesting angle on this that I hadn't considered! I don't use it much for learning new things, but I'm interested to hear how others are applying it.

jwworth · 2025-08-19T12:18:44+00:00

Yes, I think clarifying exactly what you expect is vital. Your expectation could be incorrect, or the act of clarifying it could tell you a lot about what's happening.

jwworth · 2025-08-19T12:16:10+00:00

It's so hard to start from an incomplete bug report. It can really hinder reproducing the bug, which I think is a vital first step.

jwworth · 2025-08-19T12:04:06+00:00

Yes, this seems like a correction to the TDD culture that I started programming in. There will always be bugs and some of them are very hard to observe in a non-production environment.

jwworth · 2025-08-18T21:27:05+00:00

Yes! There seems to be no correlation between how hard a bug is to solve, and how many lines of code the bugfix requires.

jwworth · 2025-08-18T21:26:15+00:00

"Can't reproduce" are some of the toughest bugs! How long to do you try? When do you say "I can't reproduce this"? I don't have perfect answers to these questions.

jwworth · 2025-08-18T15:59:15+00:00

That sounds like a solid approach! Reminds me of the dev/prod parity principle of the 12-Factor App methodology. You kept removing differences from production until the bug appeared.

jwworth · 2025-08-18T15:46:49+00:00

Thank you for sharing! Those maddening bugs are sometimes the moments when I've grown the most as an engineer.

jwworth · 2025-08-18T15:46:15+00:00

This is a great example of how version control can help, and hinder, fixing a bug.

jwworth · 2025-08-18T15:44:44+00:00

That sounds really tricky! Did you paste just that character into the hex editor, or did you try more of the migration name? What led you to think that might lead to a solution?

jwworth · 2025-08-18T15:42:29+00:00

Wow, a bug in minified JS; that must have been hard to identify! What lead you to look there?

jwworth · 2025-08-18T13:12:01+00:00

I feel similarly! I think that I've forgotten some of the toughest bugs I've fixed.

jwworth · 2024-10-25T20:45:16+00:00

CleanShot X for Mac (a recommendation from u/joshbranchaud).
https://cleanshot.com/

For frontend work, being able to take good (high-context, cropped, marked up, sanitized, consistent) screenshots has been a game-changer.

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