TMI: Order out of chaos

I can barely bring myself to write anything today, both because I'm annoyed about some work-bureaucracy stuff (but isn't that always the source of annoyance?) and because I spent today on work that, while highly enjoyable (to me), is especially interesting (to anyone else), but writing every day is a habit I want to have, so I'll try.

Today was bug triage day! So I triaged ALL the bugs -- no, not really, I triaged bugs 2396-2526. Not a particularly notable number of duplicates or obsolete bugs today, but a fair number that were in need of labels and milestones. I stopped assigning bugs to people as much as I was before, so that there are some unassigned bugs for interns and new contributors to work on. ( Cut for length )

TMI: printf-style debugging, the only kind there is

The subject line is a little misleading, since I actually had an intense gdb session today (at least compared to the usual way in which I use gdb, which is to get a backtrace and then quit).

I got into working on one of those bugs today that's like gambling or playing a video game (two activities I try to avoid as much as possible, since I get paid to debug and don't get paid to gamble or play games :-D). There's always one more strategy you can try and maybe *this* time you'll find the bug... and since sometimes you do find it, the intermittent reinforcement keeps you going until 4 in the morning. ( Cut for length )