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I spent way too long trying to figure out this bug in my code today

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The video leverages a relatable 'developer struggle' narrative with a humorous, unexpected twist that rewards the viewer for watching until the end.

Summary

A software developer recounts a frustrating hour spent debugging a missing image on a user profile. She eventually discovers that the 'missing image' icon was actually the user's uploaded profile picture.

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1Developer introduces a frustrating bug
2Shows the screen recording of the bug
3Walks through the debugging process
4Reveals the surprising cause of the issue

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Image bug in my code 😂

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I spent way too long trying to figure out this bug in my code today and now I am pissed. So I got assigned this issue that was basically like, hey, we don't see this image showing up on this new user. Can you go check it out? And I was like, sure, let me go figure out what's going on here. So yeah, I boot it up locally and it does look like there's no image. So I'm just going to inspect it, right? And I come over here and it looks like the source URL is correct. Like it's not a 404. Like it's actually pointing correctly. So I click on this and it still shows this, right? So I'm like, what's going on? It looks like everything's right. Did something happen in our upload process? Like the image upload process? And then even in our Cloudflare bucket, it looks like it's empty right here. So I was like, what is going on, right? So I spent like an hour on this and guess what the bug was. Guess, just take a guess. There was no bug. The intern actually uploaded that as their profile picture. The image not found thing, that is the real picture that they used for their profile picture. And they just didn't tell anyone. So yeah, wasted an hour of my life today.