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Junior Dev Tip: “Scroll Up”

Chris Coyier — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:47:21 +0000

Alex Riviere shares a quick story of a junior developer not looking in the right places for error messaging that would directly help them.

… the tools do provide you with information most of the time. You genuinely just need to take a few extra seconds and read what it is saying.

“the hardest bug I ever debugged”

Chris Coyier — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 18:00:13 +0000

Jacob Voytko shares the tale of a very difficult bug to track down. It’s always interesting to get a little insight into how people go about narrowing down the scope of a bug. In this case, it narrowed all the way down to code you’d never guess would be the cause of the bug, but such is the nature of our work sometimes.

If you haven’t heard about the bug about the 500 mile limit on email, that’s a real classic.

500 Mile Email

Chris Coyier — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 23:21:46 +0000

Have you heard the story of the 500 mile email? It’s a facinating story about someone on a college campus who could only send an email around 500 geographical miles. It sounds absurd, but it ended up being true!

Harley Hicks has started a brand new site/newsletter named after this famous debugging story in order to share more stories like that. The one about the Wi-Fi only working in the rain is similarly satisfying.