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Spent 3 days debugging a broken signup form, turns out it was one missing comma
I was trying to get a simple email capture working on my landing page. Every time someone hit submit, it just refreshed the page with no error. I checked my API calls, the form validation, even swapped out the whole script. After 72 hours of tearing my hair out, I found a missing comma in the JSON config that connected the form to my email service. Has anyone else had a tiny typo eat up like a whole work week for you?
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jesse_nguyen18d ago
Man I felt this one deep in my soul. I spent almost 4 days once trying to figure out why my site's checkout button wouldn't load on mobile safari. Turns out I had a semicolon instead of a colon in one line of CSS. That tiny little character cost me so many hours of sleep. It's always the stupid little things that get you, the stuff you'd never think to double check first.
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maryh9618d ago
The "tiny little character" thing really gets me because it reminds me of this time I was trying to figure out why my blog's comments weren't saving. I checked the database settings, the server logs, everything. Then I noticed I had a space before the comma in my SQL query, which apparently broke the whole thing. It was just one space, not even a missing character. I still have nightmares about white space errors honestly. What's the wildest one you've seen that took forever to find?
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drew_patel578d ago
Yeah it's like how one missing period in a text message can make you sound mad at your mom. The tiniest things completely break everything and then you feel dumb for hours.
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