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by HowardStark 817 days ago
Stories like these are my catnip. The 500 mile email is another great one.

How did you end up debugging/reproducing? I conjured a picture in my head of an engineer comically exasperated and squeezing the controller followed by an “Aha!”

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There was bare PCB prototype running on my desk that was in the way. I started cleaning my desk to work on something less frustrating and it got knocked off by accident. The logger went haywire immediately. That was the hint I needed.
Accident-driven development.
Aka my career