• TheDoctor [they/them]
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    19 hours ago

    I did both of these at once last week.

    Added a breakpoint. Debugger didn’t break.

    Added an echo "here";. Debugger didn’t print.

    Added a throw new Exception('fuck');. Debugger didn’t throw.

    Stepped through. Debugger wouldn’t let me step in.

    It took me almost an hour to realize it wasn’t the debugger’s fault and that a variable I thought was guaranteed to be truthy at that point was actually falsey due to upstream changes in a spreadsheet parser. I felt kind of stupid for not trusting the debugger at that point.