There’s a kind of debugging I call “flailing”—a desperate, theory-less “jiggling the handle” one can stumble into after extended…

There’s a kind of debugging I call “flailing"—a desperate, theory-less "jiggling the handle” one can stumble into after extended failure. Found myself there today on hour 3 of JS build system BS. In such situations I find Pirsig’s treatise on “gumption traps” a good antidote. pic.twitter.com/76fRzJqbuX

— Andy Matuschak (@andy_matuschak) October 6, 2020

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