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MrThomasRayner Oct 31 @ 9:05 PM EDT

Waiting for #devdiscuss like

🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 Time for the #DevDiscuss Twitter chat. Tonight's topic is 👻 Spooky bug stories 😱 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃

ThePracticalDev Oct 31 @ 9:07 PM EDT

Rules: - Stay on topic - ALWAYS ALWAYS use hashtag #DevDiscuss - Be NICE/POSITIVE ❤️ - Quoting tweets for clarity is encouraged

kylegalbraith Oct 31 @ 9:10 PM EDT

Spooky bug stories for #devdiscuss tonight. This could get interesting...

ThePracticalDev Oct 31 @ 9:11 PM EDT

Story time! Tell us about a spooky bug you've dealt with or a tale you've heard from someone else. #devdiscuss

iNidAName Oct 31 @ 9:11 PM EDT

This is my first #DevDiscuss

In reply to @ThePracticalDev

mrskellyvaughn Oct 31 @ 9:12 PM EDT

Once upon a time a magical bug appeared in a major communication service that knocked out business communication for an extended period of time. That service was called Slack. It was terrifying. 👻 #DevDiscuss

MrThomasRayner Oct 31 @ 9:13 PM EDT

#DevDiscuss does anyone else have this situation play out at work regularly? https://t.co/5sdRydryhY

ThePracticalDev Oct 31 @ 9:11 PM EDT

Story time! Tell us about a spooky bug you've dealt with or a tale you've heard from someone else. #devdiscuss

mrxinu Oct 31 @ 9:13 PM EDT

Hah, the snark is strong with this one. 😂 #DevDiscuss

mrskellyvaughn Oct 31 @ 9:12 PM EDT

Once upon a time a magical bug appeared in a major communication service that knocked out business communication for an extended period of time. That service was called Slack. It was terrifying. 👻 #DevDiscuss

bendhalpern Oct 31 @ 9:13 PM EDT

The 500-mile email is one of the spookiest ones I've ever read of https://t.co/cmGWRKwShA #DevDiscuss

ThePracticalDev Oct 31 @ 9:11 PM EDT

Story time! Tell us about a spooky bug you've dealt with or a tale you've heard from someone else. #devdiscuss

recursivefaults Oct 31 @ 9:13 PM EDT

Okay #DevDiscuss. It was our first push to pre-prod on a $72 million project. Suddenly all of our security auth code stopped working.

kylegalbraith Oct 31 @ 9:13 PM EDT

17 seconds in and......we have a winner #DevDiscuss

In reply to @mrskellyvaughn

ballpointcarrot Oct 31 @ 9:14 PM EDT

#devdiscuss not mine, and an oldie but a goodie: "More magic" https://t.co/gyVt3qbIeq

cassidoo Oct 31 @ 9:14 PM EDT

idk I guess I thought this one was weird #devdiscuss

In reply to @ThePracticalDev

doryowen Oct 31 @ 9:15 PM EDT

In the dark of night the server would reboot. Why? No clues. No pattern. So he decided to spend the night by the console... #devdiscuss

In reply to @ThePracticalDev

MrThomasRayner Oct 31 @ 9:15 PM EDT

#DevDiscuss tell me a cleaning person was unplugging it to plug in a vacuum or something :D

In reply to @doryowen, @ThePracticalDev

iNidAName Oct 31 @ 9:16 PM EDT

#DevDiscuss it abt var name I mistakenly used Caps for the first letter took me a whole week wen I saw it, I let it spend the weekend

In reply to @ThePracticalDev

MrThomasRayner Oct 31 @ 9:17 PM EDT

#DevDiscuss I feel like I heard that one recently.......

In reply to @mrskellyvaughn

static_int_husp Oct 31 @ 9:17 PM EDT

Nothing's spookier than the concurrency bug involving two separate projects that took 3 senior engineers to fix. #devdiscuss

In reply to @ThePracticalDev

ballpointcarrot Oct 31 @ 9:17 PM EDT

#devdiscuss Race conditions.

iNidAName Oct 31 @ 9:18 PM EDT

#devdiscuss who did this, it soooo spooky 😂😂😂

In reply to @cassidoo, @ThePracticalDev

recursivefaults Oct 31 @ 9:18 PM EDT

Context scanning in Spring behaved differently between Mac and Linux, and our code was wired in a backwards order.... BWHAHAHAHA #devdiscuss

MrThomasRayner Oct 31 @ 9:18 PM EDT

I only guessed because I've been there. #DevDiscuss I feel your pain.

In reply to @doryowen, @ThePracticalDev

kylegalbraith Oct 31 @ 9:18 PM EDT

One word. Async. Nuff said. #DevDiscuss

In reply to @ThePracticalDev

TheSierraMP Oct 31 @ 9:18 PM EDT

#spookybug #devdiscuss #floatingpointnumbersRdum

In reply to @ThePracticalDev

dvdmuckle Oct 31 @ 9:19 PM EDT

Not really spooky, but intermittent lockup on lab machines where if someone was using one and another user logged in to another machine, the former's would lock up. Never managed to solve it, eventually just went away. We think it had something to do with NFS. #DevDiscuss

In reply to @ThePracticalDev

twobree Oct 31 @ 9:19 PM EDT

Not a 🐛 necessarily, but a year or so ago half the internet went ⬇️ when a major DNS server was DDOS'd. GitHub, Heroku, Twitter #devdiscuss

ThePracticalDev Oct 31 @ 9:11 PM EDT

Story time! Tell us about a spooky bug you've dealt with or a tale you've heard from someone else. #devdiscuss

cjbush Oct 31 @ 9:19 PM EDT

This one. I spent way longer on it than I should have. #DevDiscuss https://t.co/BRuDf3ACvq

In reply to @ThePracticalDev

kviksilver Oct 31 @ 9:20 PM EDT

Hardcoded worldwide merchant locations for major payment company to Croatia for testing… of course it leaked into production… #DevDiscuss

In reply to @ThePracticalDev

holdenkarau Oct 31 @ 9:20 PM EDT

I screwed up a memory allocation layout and the stack space of one program overlapped into the data section of the next. Nothing like changing constants for 🎃 👻 #devdiscuss

mrxinu Oct 31 @ 9:20 PM EDT

I have to say though that was a beautifully written SO post. Helping people help you, and all that. #DevDiscuss

In reply to @cjbush, @ThePracticalDev

twobree Oct 31 @ 9:21 PM EDT

And when Amazon S3 goes down, so does file uploads to Slack, GitHub, and so much more. #devdiscuss

MrThomasRayner Oct 31 @ 9:21 PM EDT

My favorite spooky "bug" #DevDiscuss #FractionsAreHard

codingwcookie Oct 31 @ 9:21 PM EDT

Right now I’m dealing with a bug 🐜 in production that I can’t reproduce in dev or test. 😠 #DevDiscuss

In reply to @ThePracticalDev

mrxinu Oct 31 @ 9:21 PM EDT

Alright y'all, save your characters and we'll assume your bug isn't really spooky. #KeepPostingThough #DevDiscuss

MrThomasRayner Oct 31 @ 9:21 PM EDT

#DevDiscuss The good ol' "It works on my machine"

In reply to @codingwcookie, @ThePracticalDev

MalthanisMMO Oct 31 @ 9:22 PM EDT

After a tight schedule and tense overtime, my team presented a website to the client and were told "It's not 'fun' enough". #DevDiscuss

kylegalbraith Oct 31 @ 9:22 PM EDT

Put everything in S3, they said. It will be fine they said. AWS support, "hold my beer". #DevDiscuss

In reply to @twobree

MrThomasRayner Oct 31 @ 9:22 PM EDT

#DevDiscuss needs more animated rainbow divider banners

In reply to @MalthanisMMO

mrxinu Oct 31 @ 9:23 PM EDT

Okay, this one is going to give me nightmares. *runs off to try it* #DevDiscuss

MrThomasRayner Oct 31 @ 9:21 PM EDT

My favorite spooky "bug" #DevDiscuss #FractionsAreHard

dasanil Oct 31 @ 9:23 PM EDT

I shut down an entire data center with a bug in a regexp for choosing machines. Amazingly no external customer impact. #devdiscuss

ThePracticalDev Oct 31 @ 9:06 PM EDT

🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 Time for the #DevDiscuss Twitter chat. Tonight's topic is 👻 Spooky bug stories 😱 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃

MrThomasRayner Oct 31 @ 9:23 PM EDT

#DevDiscuss It happens in a whole bunch of languages :D

In reply to @mrxinu

Nick_Craver Oct 31 @ 9:24 PM EDT

One time someone force pushed master. That was pretty haunting. #DevDiscuss

ThePracticalDev Oct 31 @ 9:11 PM EDT

Story time! Tell us about a spooky bug you've dealt with or a tale you've heard from someone else. #devdiscuss

mrxinu Oct 31 @ 9:24 PM EDT

I can't hear you, "la la la la la la la". 😂 #devdiscuss

In reply to @MrThomasRayner

gumnos Oct 31 @ 9:24 PM EDT

That time testing SQL and 1) missed that I was connected to production instead of dev DB, and 2) the bad WHERE clause #devdiscuss #backups?

In reply to @ThePracticalDev

Chizom_ Oct 31 @ 9:24 PM EDT

My app went down during testing because I missed an "i" in my variable. Damn not cool #devdiscuss

mrskellyvaughn Oct 31 @ 9:25 PM EDT

I once caused a takedown an entire 10,000 member forum because my password was hello1. There wasn't a bug. I was the bug. 🐛 #devdiscuss

ThePracticalDev Oct 31 @ 9:11 PM EDT

Story time! Tell us about a spooky bug you've dealt with or a tale you've heard from someone else. #devdiscuss

Nick_Craver Oct 31 @ 9:26 PM EDT

And maybe this one counts: parameters passed to methods weren't the parameters the methods were getting: https://t.co/wY43lN9e2w #DevDiscuss

ThePracticalDev Oct 31 @ 9:11 PM EDT

Story time! Tell us about a spooky bug you've dealt with or a tale you've heard from someone else. #devdiscuss

porto2112 Oct 31 @ 9:26 PM EDT

Finding the SQL query that is slowing down the whole system. #devdiscuss

In reply to @ThePracticalDev

mrxinu Oct 31 @ 9:26 PM EDT

Testing SNMP on an ESX host, asked client if I could flush their iptables rules to test. Vmotioned entire company to Germany. #DevDiscuss

ThePracticalDev Oct 31 @ 9:11 PM EDT

Story time! Tell us about a spooky bug you've dealt with or a tale you've heard from someone else. #devdiscuss

mrskellyvaughn Oct 31 @ 9:27 PM EDT

I once caused the takedown of an entire 10,000 member forum because my password was hello1. There wasn't a bug. I was the bug. 🐛 #devdiscuss

ThePracticalDev Oct 31 @ 9:11 PM EDT

Story time! Tell us about a spooky bug you've dealt with or a tale you've heard from someone else. #devdiscuss

riverslucas Oct 31 @ 9:28 PM EDT

Pushing and popping to service broker queues for hours, working excellent! Next day, random messages missing 😱 #DevDiscuss

In reply to @ThePracticalDev

MrThomasRayner Oct 31 @ 9:29 PM EDT

I once had the pleasure of guessing a stakeholder's pw right in front of them my describing an example "weak pw" #DevDiscuss Awkward.

In reply to @mrskellyvaughn

mrxinu Oct 31 @ 9:29 PM EDT

What happened next?! #DevDiscuss

In reply to @riverslucas, @ThePracticalDev

mrxinu Oct 31 @ 9:29 PM EDT

What happened next?! #DevDiscuss

riverslucas Oct 31 @ 9:28 PM EDT

Pushing and popping to service broker queues for hours, working excellent! Next day, random messages missing 😱 #DevDiscuss
In reply to @ThePracticalDev

thepaffy Oct 31 @ 9:30 PM EDT

Enable or disable a class member via compiler switch in different parts of a project #DevDiscuss

thepaffy Oct 31 @ 9:31 PM EDT

Enable or disable a class member via compiler switch in different parts of a project. Thats a really spooooooooky bug👻 #DevDiscuss

m4grio Oct 31 @ 9:31 PM EDT

Had a ‘q’ before the opening #DevDiscuss

ThePracticalDev Oct 31 @ 9:06 PM EDT

🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 Time for the #DevDiscuss Twitter chat. Tonight's topic is 👻 Spooky bug stories 😱 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃

riverslucas Oct 31 @ 9:33 PM EDT

Cleaned queues, started over, added logs, transactions... and working fine #DevDiscuss

In reply to @mrxinu

mrxinu Oct 31 @ 9:33 PM EDT

I looped over some files, trying to put a -> $filename header at the top of each. Nope, 280 files with a hyphen in them. #DevDiscuss

ThePracticalDev Oct 31 @ 9:11 PM EDT

Story time! Tell us about a spooky bug you've dealt with or a tale you've heard from someone else. #devdiscuss

MrThomasRayner Oct 31 @ 9:34 PM EDT

#DevDiscuss I like this one best

In reply to @m4grio

mrxinu Oct 31 @ 9:34 PM EDT

Brilliant! The much-loved "well, let's see if it happens again, cuz it probably won't right?" play. 🤘 #DevDiscuss

In reply to @riverslucas

m4grio Oct 31 @ 9:34 PM EDT

The “big data” experts the company hired, developed an API in Go... with no vendor imports. #DevDiscuss

ThePracticalDev Oct 31 @ 9:06 PM EDT

🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 Time for the #DevDiscuss Twitter chat. Tonight's topic is 👻 Spooky bug stories 😱 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃

mrxinu Oct 31 @ 9:35 PM EDT

Because I was going through my "hey, dashes and > signs look like arrows" phase. #DevDiscuss

MrThomasRayner Oct 31 @ 9:35 PM EDT

You could siphon off those fractions of pennies into your own acct! Just make sure you don't misplace the decimal. #DevDiscuss #OfficeSpace

In reply to @WesNetmo

riverslucas Oct 31 @ 9:36 PM EDT

Same issues. So, I decided to change strategy and close conversations in init queue, tomorrow I will know if this works #DevDiscuss 😭

In reply to @mrxinu

mrxinu Oct 31 @ 9:37 PM EDT

OMG, you didn't say it was a *current* issue. That's horrifying. #TooSoon #DevDiscuss

In reply to @riverslucas

MalthanisMMO Oct 31 @ 9:38 PM EDT

Another #DevDiscuss bug scare: my current boss had an entire database collapse because of a new client with a last name of "Null".

m4grio Oct 31 @ 9:38 PM EDT

Then, months later mgmnt decided to redo. Hired “go experts” that rewrote the whole thing... with no vendor imports. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️ #DevDiscuss

MrThomasRayner Oct 31 @ 9:39 PM EDT

Thankfully it just crashed. What if the client had a more unfortunate name? #DevDiscuss https://t.co/SBKFupog2N #BobbyTables

In reply to @MalthanisMMO

shannon_crabill Oct 31 @ 9:39 PM EDT

Ahhhh, late to #devdiscuss again!

mrxinu Oct 31 @ 9:39 PM EDT

The party doesn't start until you get here. #DevDiscuss

In reply to @shannon_crabill

mrxinu Oct 31 @ 9:40 PM EDT

Okay, I don't care what else happens tonight. @MrThomasRayner is *funny*. #DevDiscuss

MrThomasRayner Oct 31 @ 9:39 PM EDT

Thankfully it just crashed. What if the client had a more unfortunate name? #DevDiscuss https://t.co/SBKFupog2N #BobbyTables
In reply to @MalthanisMMO

iNidAName Oct 31 @ 9:40 PM EDT

#DevDiscuss this is hilarious, not that's a client worth rejecting

In reply to @MalthanisMMO

kylegalbraith Oct 31 @ 9:40 PM EDT

Async fan out to list files in an S3 bucket. We thought there would be at most 10. Turns out, there was 10 million. Rough night. #DevDiscuss

courtneyxann Oct 31 @ 9:40 PM EDT

I once crashed a prod site because I copy/pasted text out of Photoshop and broke a XML string. That was a fun one. #devdiscuss

ThePracticalDev Oct 31 @ 9:11 PM EDT

Story time! Tell us about a spooky bug you've dealt with or a tale you've heard from someone else. #devdiscuss

mrxinu Oct 31 @ 9:40 PM EDT

Right? No shoes, no shirt, no last names of tech that might break our stuff. #NewSignIdea #DevDiscuss

In reply to @iNidAName, @MalthanisMMO

MrThomasRayner Oct 31 @ 9:41 PM EDT

Much appreciated! #DevDiscuss

In reply to @mrxinu

MrThomasRayner Oct 31 @ 9:41 PM EDT

I love how ubiquitous that comic is. #DevDiscuss

In reply to @MalthanisMMO

iNidAName Oct 31 @ 9:41 PM EDT

#DevDiscuss

In reply to @m4grio

mrxinu Oct 31 @ 9:42 PM EDT

People copying code into Word/Outlook and then back out with those fancy quotes breaking everything. #DevDiscuss #CopyPasteWithCaution

ThePracticalDev Oct 31 @ 9:11 PM EDT

Story time! Tell us about a spooky bug you've dealt with or a tale you've heard from someone else. #devdiscuss

shannon_crabill Oct 31 @ 9:42 PM EDT

DON'T STOP, MAKE IT POP...DJ, BLOW MY SPEAKERS UP I mean hey everyone? #devdiscuss

In reply to @mrxinu

jrgifford Oct 31 @ 9:42 PM EDT

Deployed to prod with the "invoice.charge_card" line commented out. Was 2 days before anyone noticed. #devdiscuss

bendhalpern Oct 31 @ 9:43 PM EDT

We have a https://t.co/E4yHRJkeOg discussion from today with lots of scary stories to complement these 💀 https://t.co/fnjE7GAjlm #devdiscuss

admhlt Oct 31 @ 9:43 PM EDT

A script I wrote once printed 1,200 pages of documentation overnight instead of saving them to PDFs. #devdiscuss

shannon_crabill Oct 31 @ 9:43 PM EDT

Not a bug, but my living nightmare was getting ready-to-go email files from a vendor and the code didn't even validate #devdiscuss

mrxinu Oct 31 @ 9:44 PM EDT

And you will forever be one of my favorite twitterzens because 'complement' vs. 'compliment'. 🤘🥇 #SpellingCurmudgeon #DevDiscuss

bendhalpern Oct 31 @ 9:43 PM EDT

We have a https://t.co/E4yHRJkeOg discussion from today with lots of scary stories to complement these 💀 https://t.co/fnjE7GAjlm #devdiscuss

Dutrius Oct 31 @ 9:44 PM EDT

A c++ compiler that refused to compile a valid program entry method into the program. #DevDiscuss

In reply to @ThePracticalDev

twobree Oct 31 @ 9:45 PM EDT

Speaking of S3, the RNC stored a db of voter trait data (500+ pts per person)... w/o password protection #devdiscuss https://t.co/7JeWOUhzH0

Programazing Oct 31 @ 9:45 PM EDT

Check out my website/blog at https://t.co/4DAQVTUa1s #DevDiscuss

gwmccull Oct 31 @ 9:45 PM EDT

April 1st-swapped rating ⭐️ on an internal tool w/❄️. Spent the day answering bug complaints. I caused the most bug reports ever #DevDiscuss

In reply to @ThePracticalDev

shannon_crabill Oct 31 @ 9:45 PM EDT

Curly quotes, incorrectly nested

tags, unclosed image tags, etc #devdiscuss

amanjeev Oct 31 @ 9:45 PM EDT

I once left a JS alert() in a organization level component. The kind of bug you quickly find out. #devdiscuss

In reply to @ThePracticalDev

MrThomasRayner Oct 31 @ 9:45 PM EDT

HOW COULD YOU, YOU MONSTER #DevDiscuss Just doing my end-user impression.

In reply to @gwmccull, @ThePracticalDev

shannon_crabill Oct 31 @ 9:45 PM EDT

Wow #devdiscuss

In reply to @admhlt

iNidAName Oct 31 @ 9:46 PM EDT

#DevDiscuss hahahaha at least now you have the Hard Copies

In reply to @admhlt

philnash Oct 31 @ 9:46 PM EDT

I once fixed a site by resurrecting a config file I’d killed. The spooky bit is the undo power of Windows server remote desktop #devdiscuss

ThePracticalDev Oct 31 @ 9:06 PM EDT

🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 Time for the #DevDiscuss Twitter chat. Tonight's topic is 👻 Spooky bug stories 😱 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃

CWReaceJr Oct 31 @ 9:46 PM EDT

Once had a reverse Schrodinger's bug: wouldn't happen when the debugger was attached - like it knew the dev was looking at it. #devdiscuss

In reply to @ThePracticalDev

MrThomasRayner Oct 31 @ 9:46 PM EDT

Lean into the mistake by scanning them all back to generate the PDF #DevDiscuss

In reply to @admhlt

mrxinu Oct 31 @ 9:47 PM EDT

I would have turned around immediately and gone home. All those trees. Gone forever. #YouMonster #DevDiscuss

admhlt Oct 31 @ 9:43 PM EDT

A script I wrote once printed 1,200 pages of documentation overnight instead of saving them to PDFs. #devdiscuss

MrThomasRayner Oct 31 @ 9:47 PM EDT

A former coworker sent joke emails from "Chuck Norris" to our team members for April Fool's and triggered a security incident #DevDiscuss

In reply to @gwmccull, @ThePracticalDev

CWReaceJr Oct 31 @ 9:48 PM EDT

(It turned out that the debugger added just enough delay to avoid the race condition that caused the bug.) #devdiscuss

In reply to @ThePracticalDev

MrThomasRayner Oct 31 @ 9:49 PM EDT

That's a Boo From Mario bug. #DevDiscuss https://t.co/7RaJzI1Eop

In reply to @CWReaceJr, @ThePracticalDev

TheHanna Oct 31 @ 9:49 PM EDT

Users couldn't upload documents larger than 1mb. Eventually traced it back to a misconfigured nginx reverse proxy #DevDiscuss

ThePracticalDev Oct 31 @ 9:11 PM EDT

Story time! Tell us about a spooky bug you've dealt with or a tale you've heard from someone else. #devdiscuss

MrThomasRayner Oct 31 @ 9:49 PM EDT

It's better than using Adobe Acrobat #DevDiscuss

In reply to @mrskellyvaughn, @admhlt

CaptainCodeman Oct 31 @ 9:50 PM EDT

Someone's mouse always stopped working in the a.noon. Worked OK when I used it - literally I moved it, worked, she moved it, didn't budge. Answer? She was left handed which allowed the a.noon sun to shine on the mouse casing and blind the optical sensor #DevDiscuss

Ray_Sir Oct 31 @ 9:51 PM EDT

We ran into a comment in of Ada code "do not remove this comment" Of course we removed it. It wouldn't compile after that. #devdiscuss

In reply to @ThePracticalDev

mrxinu Oct 31 @ 9:51 PM EDT

Baahahahahaha, best story ever. Love it. #DevDiscuss #DontFearTheSunlight

In reply to @CaptainCodeman

MrThomasRayner Oct 31 @ 9:52 PM EDT

I'm gonna start putting line count checks into my bigger files. #DevDiscuss

In reply to @Ray_Sir, @ThePracticalDev

mrxinu Oct 31 @ 9:52 PM EDT

Is it horrible that I want to find out how they did that, y'know, for science? #NotForPranking #SeriouslyThough #DevDiscuss

Ray_Sir Oct 31 @ 9:51 PM EDT

We ran into a comment in of Ada code "do not remove this comment" Of course we removed it. It wouldn't compile after that. #devdiscuss
In reply to @ThePracticalDev

philnash Oct 31 @ 9:53 PM EDT

Wow! On an internal tool! People really are scared by change! #devdiscuss

In reply to @gwmccull, @ThePracticalDev

DeathB4Decaf Oct 31 @ 9:53 PM EDT

Once traced a production issue to a JRE that returned true for null.equals(null). The bug is never in the runtime… unless it is. #devdiscuss

In reply to @ThePracticalDev

MrThomasRayner Oct 31 @ 9:53 PM EDT

Change to eggplant emoji next year #DevDiscuss

In reply to @gwmccull, @ThePracticalDev

ThePracticalDev Oct 31 @ 9:53 PM EDT

In the last few minutes of #DevDiscuss, anybody have any news to share, like a project or a personal win, or any other announcement?

kylegalbraith Oct 31 @ 9:53 PM EDT

At that point I would rage quit and go home. The universe is literally against you, pack it up. #DevDiscuss

In reply to @CaptainCodeman

kylegalbraith Oct 31 @ 9:54 PM EDT

Ok, nope that is #RageQuit material #DevDiscuss

Ray_Sir Oct 31 @ 9:51 PM EDT

We ran into a comment in of Ada code "do not remove this comment" Of course we removed it. It wouldn't compile after that. #devdiscuss
In reply to @ThePracticalDev

iNidAName Oct 31 @ 9:54 PM EDT

#DevDiscuss That's the thing with instructions

In reply to @Ray_Sir, @ThePracticalDev

rheingolden Oct 31 @ 9:55 PM EDT

When I found an event counted twice in time series data, but only when the event happened at exactly midnight. 😆🎃 #DevDiscuss #spookybugs

In reply to @ThePracticalDev

ewindisch Oct 31 @ 9:55 PM EDT

the tale of this loop for (i=0;i<5;i++) { printf("%i\n"); } which printed: 0 0 0 0 0 #devdiscuss

ThePracticalDev Oct 31 @ 9:11 PM EDT

Story time! Tell us about a spooky bug you've dealt with or a tale you've heard from someone else. #devdiscuss

shannon_crabill Oct 31 @ 9:55 PM EDT

#Hacktoberfest is over! I made enough PRs to get the t-shirt #devdiscuss

In reply to @ThePracticalDev

bruno_dsm Oct 31 @ 9:55 PM EDT

Getting a notification at 3am that something is down during your first time on-call! 😱 #DevDiscuss

ThePracticalDev Oct 31 @ 9:11 PM EDT

Story time! Tell us about a spooky bug you've dealt with or a tale you've heard from someone else. #devdiscuss

MrThomasRayner Oct 31 @ 9:56 PM EDT

Recording of my Regex for Complete Noobs session from last week is uploaded & available for fellow noobs https://t.co/JMRlLIBZX0 #DevDiscuss

ThePracticalDev Oct 31 @ 9:53 PM EDT

In the last few minutes of #DevDiscuss, anybody have any news to share, like a project or a personal win, or any other announcement?

xcentrik4 Oct 31 @ 9:56 PM EDT

My company sent me overseas to chill with the rest of my scrum team, for no other reason but to bond in the Agile way. #DevDiscuss

In reply to @ThePracticalDev

kylegalbraith Oct 31 @ 9:56 PM EDT

Awesome feedback so far on my book. Inspired by everyone here. Feel free to sign up to stay updated https://t.co/uBBDLVkaZf #DevDiscuss

philnash Oct 31 @ 9:56 PM EDT

I just moved to Australia, is there anyone here in the dev.to community I should be following? #DevDiscuss

In reply to @ThePracticalDev

YanaLustina Oct 31 @ 9:57 PM EDT

I have been able to study a little every day even though I'm working extra & caring for a sick mom! #DevDiscuss #101daysofcode @CodeNewbies

ThePracticalDev Oct 31 @ 9:53 PM EDT

In the last few minutes of #DevDiscuss, anybody have any news to share, like a project or a personal win, or any other announcement?

shannon_crabill Oct 31 @ 9:57 PM EDT

And my countdown to Halloween project was a win. I learned a lot and got some great contributes! https://t.co/EodcbrBeVo #devdiscuss

In reply to @ThePracticalDev

kylegalbraith Oct 31 @ 9:57 PM EDT

Also shout out to @mrxinu for an awesome #DevOps meetup last week. Learned a lot! #DevDiscuss

MalthanisMMO Oct 31 @ 9:57 PM EDT

I think I'm finally starting to understand CSS and jQuery (front-end fanciness had long been a mystery to me)! #DevDiscuss

ThePracticalDev Oct 31 @ 9:53 PM EDT

In the last few minutes of #DevDiscuss, anybody have any news to share, like a project or a personal win, or any other announcement?

gwmccull Oct 31 @ 9:57 PM EDT

I get those too! The #ReactNative debugger eliminates many of the prod bugs that happen on phones SMH #DevDiscuss

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isaacandsuch Oct 31 @ 9:57 PM EDT

This: https://t.co/0Vtg6Ahavk It's an app to help people write their first book. #DevDiscuss

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mrxinu Oct 31 @ 9:58 PM EDT

Aaaaagh, you were there?! Darn it, I wanted to meet you! Also, thank you! #DevDiscuss

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lnoogn Oct 31 @ 9:58 PM EDT

The phantom bug. Comes for you and can't be replicated by anyone. Only occurs once b4 changing form to haunt another victim 👻 #devdiscuss

ThePracticalDev Oct 31 @ 9:06 PM EDT

🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 Time for the #DevDiscuss Twitter chat. Tonight's topic is 👻 Spooky bug stories 😱 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃

essemX Oct 31 @ 9:59 PM EDT

critical bug at saturday night, need to be fixed by sunday morning. #devdiscuss

ThePracticalDev Oct 31 @ 9:11 PM EDT

Story time! Tell us about a spooky bug you've dealt with or a tale you've heard from someone else. #devdiscuss

iNidAName Oct 31 @ 10:00 PM EDT

#DevDiscuss Still overwhelm by how much love people are showing on this https://t.co/1M9C2NIS4R

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