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Cameron Watters
Personal blog · cameronwatters.com/writingprogrammingcareer
Cameron Watters's personal blog at cameronwatters.com covers programming and career. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a debugging story: customers in one country could not check out on an e-commerce site, and the cause took months to find. The linked post is about that story.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I'm not sure if this qualifies, but I found it interesting at the time I solved it (Spring 2011?): https://cameronwatters.com/writing/2017/08/01/take-the-time-... TL;DR (of the problem): customers from a single country—and only that country—were (sometimes) unable to checkout on an e-commerce website and, after months of trying to sort out the issue, the solution turned out to be very facepalm-worthy.
Comment linking /writing/2017/08/01/take-the-time-to-truly-understand.html
on “Ask HN: Favorite Debugging Story?”Submitted First-year reading list as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on Operational Responsibility as a story · 1 points
HN discussion