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The Mac got slower, and quitting the app didn't fix it
This is the worst bug I have written. Not because the app broke — it worked fine throughout — but because it degraded the machine it ran on, permanently, and left the damage behind...
The Bug Is on Every Android 17 Phone, but Not in the Source Code Anyone Can See
Last weekend, Visual Pinball on Android stopped loading pinball tables out of nowhere. Not all of them. Only the tables whose VBScript…Continue reading on Medium »
Beyond Screenshots: Building Replayable Production Diagnostics for Hard-to-Reproduce Bugs
Production bugs frequently arrive with too little evidence. A screenshot captures the final visual state, a crash report identifies a failing stack, and a support ticket describes...
Flutter App Bug Fixing
I have a production-ready Flutter codebase that is misbehaving on Android. The problems show up every time I run the app—no randomness involved—so you’ll be able to reproduce them...
Two bugs in my photo vault survived every QA pass because my test phone was never clean
One dead-ended the vault if you tapped Not now. The other left the original in the gallery and swallowed the exception that said so.Continue reading on Medium »
Bug Tracking: A Complete Guide for Developers and Testers
A complete guide to bug tracking and issue tracking: key processes, the defect life cycle, top tools, and best practices to manage issues for QA and dev teams.
Software Bugs: Types, Life Cycle, Examples & How to Fix Them
What are software bugs? Learn the common causes of software bugs and how to fix them, plus the 13 types, the bug life cycle, and real-world examples.
I built a tool to catch empty scans read as passes, and shipped it with an empty scan read as a pass
The tool has a self-test. It plants two positive fixtures that must be found and four negative fixtures that must stay quiet. Then it prints a control line, and you read the real n...
Google praised AI for finding bugs. Now it has too many reports, not enough bugs
AI made bug hunting easier. Now Google is dealing with the fallout.
How a Simple UI Test Exposed an Infinite, Unnecessary Recomposition Loop
Two lines of defensive code, one silent performance bug, and the flaky test everyone almost ignoredContinue reading on Medium »
Watch out for this nasty iOS 27 freeze bug — here’s the fix
You need to know about an iOS 27 freeze bug, even though it's more of a potential prank than a crisis. Still, here’s how to fix it. (via Cult of Mac - Your source for the latest A...
Mythos helps bug bounty firm find critical hidden RCE
HackerOne used Anthropic's controversial Claude Mythos 5 model on its codebase and found a critical hidden flaw.
69 Tests. All Passing. Zero Bugs Caught.
An AI model wrote 69 tests for a Python module. Every one passed. Together they caught zero of the eleven bugs I had deliberately planted in that module. A second setup, pointed a...
Postgres 19 delayed after AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fix
Core devs revert up to 10 features, push release to November, and blame better tooling rather than vibe coding
COSMIC shuts the door on AI code as GNOME debates letting bug reports in
System76 demands human-written contributions, while a rival desktop developer argues bot-found flaws are too valuable to ignore
The iOS 27 Freezing Bug Explained [Infographic]
As new operating system updates are released, new bugs are experienced by users once in a while. Take the iOS 27 Freezing Bug for instance: it is an issue that causes the screen to...
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