The last person with this bug gave up & reimplemented Apple’s page effects.
Apple’s bug, or mine (Sprite bites)?
Programming and debugging life — what a really hard bug looks like being found & fixed. A tale for startup founders, developers and the curious.
This is what despair looks like.
This is a tale for programmers or anyone interested in what it’s like for us debugging things. If you’re in a relationship with a developer and wonder why sometimes they can be incredibly wrong about how long things take, this may help you understand.
Casually noticing a bug — you start by recording just the circumstances and actions you recall of how you noticed it. The things I was certain of were that I started with a sample (from our Favorites list of in-built Touchgrams) and that the problem occurred after I’d edited the text on the first page.
Notice that I reported the playback screen as being all black on the 2nd page.
