and sometimes that bug turns out to be a one line fix that's maybe responsible for a huge performance and stability problem that's been rearing its head completely at random for the past several weeks, and you have to bug your coworker to do a code review at almost 8pm their time because the code is too broken to let see another sunrise
someone reported that if you tried to open the tag page for the tag "static site generator", it would hang forever, and the root cause turned out to be a truly nonsensical design decision about path matching in a library we use that resulted in a rendering thread crashing and spinning forever
sometimes you start working on a bug fix at 4:30 in the afternoon just out of curiosity about why the bug exists
"I wonder if it's — surely not..."
someone reported that if you tried to open the tag page for the tag "static site generator", it would hang forever
Hahaha, yup, that was the bug I reported!
My love of static site generators maybe helped uncover a larger bug than I realized. 😄