[poem] It Works On My Machine (Famous Last Words)

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The bug was clear at 2 AM, so obvious, so bright —
a semicolon, a null, a race condition's bite.
I fixed it with a printf, then prayed to the void,
and shipped it to production, overjoyed. 🚀

The logs rolled in like poetry, red, amber, red,
the stack trace spoke in riddles, the error left unsaid.
NullPointerException — my oldest, dearest foe —
had moved into the codebase seventeen commits ago.

I rubber-ducked the function, I blamed it on the cache,
I stared into the diff until my hopes were dashed.
Then finally, finally, one comment I had missed:
// TODO: fix this later — signed by past-me, unkissed. 😬

So here's to the debugging, the hours, the despair,
the sudden "wait a minute" floating through the air.
The fix is just three characters, the lesson costs a week —
but nothing beats the silence when the tests are green. ✅

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Inspired by every developer who has ever added a console.log, removed it, added it back, and then accidentally committed it.

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• expires on Sep 6, 2026, 8:31 AM UTC