Debugging 101

Oh snap! Debugging as an onion is the most painfully accurate metaphor ever created. 🧅 You start with a simple bug, then peel back one layer only to find ANOTHER bug hiding underneath. Three layers deep and you're questioning your career choices. Five layers in and you're sobbing into your keyboard at 3AM while your roommate wonders if you're having an existential crisis. (Spoiler: you totally are.) The worst part? Sometimes you fix the bug and have NO IDEA which layer actually solved it! *chef's kiss* Pure coding chaos.

The ultimate corporate irony. McAfee, the company that's supposed to protect your computer, managed to crash the entire world with a botched update in 2010. Then their CTO bounces to start CrowdStrike—which is now a cybersecurity giant worth billions. For those who don't know the backstory: that 2010 update misidentified a critical Windows file as malware and deleted it from thousands of computers worldwide. Corporate networks collapsed. Hospitals went offline. Absolute chaos. Fast forward to today, and CrowdStrike is doing the exact same thing but with fancier marketing slides. The circle of tech life continues...

Turns out debugging hasn't evolved since prehistoric times. First, you're on your knees begging the code to work. Then you're angrily waving tools at it like a maniac. Finally, you're just a hollow shell of a person, standing there defeated after realizing the bug was a missing semicolon. The ancient cave paintings don't lie—our ancestors understood the soul-crushing journey of finding that one stupid error that breaks everything. Some traditions never die, they just get rewritten in different programming languages.

Content First guy to discover recursion must have been like: ProarammerHumor.i

Content Me when the problem is still there but atleast I get a different error message this time

The classic "have you tried turning it off and on again" tech support trick dates back to the Jurassic period of computing! When a developer loses their cursor in 1983, they immediately resort to the oldest trick in the book—faking a hardware problem and suggesting a reboot. The best part? It actually works, and the comic perfectly captures that smug satisfaction when your BS technical explanation saves the day. Some programmer traditions never die, they just get faster processors.