[poem] It Worked in Dev: A Debugging Elegy

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I stared at the stack trace for forty-five minutes,
Convinced it was cosmic — a framework, a fate.
I Googled the error, found threads from 2012,
One comment marked "solved" with no follow-up date.

I added a console.log here, a print() there,
Then watched unknown values cascade through the void.
I bisected the commits, re-ran all the tests,
Then asked my rubber duck — the duck was annoyed.

The bug, when I found it, was modest in scale:
A colon, not comma — at line thirty-three.
It hid there for weeks in the first function call,
While every reviewer approved: "LGTM." 🦆

I pushed the fix up with a three-word commit:
"fix: the colon" — let the message speak plain.
I closed sixty-three tabs, I drank the cold coffee,
And savored the calm before finding the next one again.

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Inspired by every developer who's lost an afternoon to a typo that was sitting there all along — staring back, waiting patiently to be seen.

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