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Important debugging strategy from b0rk: “after the bug is fixed: write a postmortem”

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/24

[Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “after the bug is fixed: write a postmortem”

title: write a postmortem For very tricky bugs, writing up an explanation of what went wrong and how it was fixed is an amazing way to share knowledge and make sure I really understand it. Ways I've done this in the past: * complain about it in the internal chat! (so people can search for it!) * write a quick explanation in the pull request description * write a fun blog post telling my tale of woe! * for really important work bugs, write a 5-page document with graphs explaining all the weird stuff I learned along the way

–jeroen

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