My first real bug hunt took 6 hours in a coffee shop in Austin

I spent all Saturday chasing a syntax error that turned out to be one missing semicolon in a loop. The worst part was I had a breakpoint right next to it the whole time, but I kept ignoring it because I trusted my spacing. Then I finally read the error message line by line and felt like a total goof. Has anyone else spent way too long on something that dumb, or is it just me?

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wesleyb2019d ago

The real killer is that your brain was already convinced the bug was somewhere else, so it kept skipping over the obvious spot. I had a similar thing with a CSS media query once where I spent three hours checking breakpoint values and it turned out I closed the wrong curly brace two lines earlier. The number of times I actually read the error popup and thought, "nah, that's not it," is embarrassing. It's not about the missing semicolon, it's about how your own confidence in your code makes you blind to the dumbest mistakes.