“At some point, everything's gonna go south on you and you're going to say, this is it. This is how I end. Now you can either accept that, or you can get to work.”
—Mark Watney, The Martian
This quote inspired me to write an article on how to survive when faced with a seemingly insurmountable bug in your project. Before you scream into the void about your ever-elusive bug, check out Seven Strategies for Finding the Toughest Bugs in Your Code. Who knows - it may be hiding in plain sight.
Encounters with tough-to-solve bugs can make coding feel like a rollercoaster of hopelessness and euphoria. And sometimes you are the only one who will have the background knowledge needed to solve them efficiently.
If you've already been at it for hours, you're not alone.
And if it has been a bug-free week so far, there's still time - so keep some of these tips in your back pocket next time you find yourself down the rabbit hole.
You can do it.
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