Tag: debugging

Ghost in the Wire: Our Two-Day Hunt for a Network Bug That Didn't Exist

Mon Sep 28 2026

The runner was crashing every two and a half minutes, and one repo's job couldn't start for over a day. We were chasing a network bug—packet captures, WinDbg memory dumps, the works. The real cause turned out to be a single line in an API filter tangled up with the watchdog's own logic.

• post-mortem
• ci-cd
• debugging

The Phantom That Wasn't There: How Unreliable grep Made Us Chase Ghosts

Thu Sep 17 2026

What do you do when your parser generates documentation for a class that a global text search across the entire repository can't find? The story of one false panic.

• c++
• debugging
• grep
• parsing
• flude