#debugging

The premise was easy. An API call was supposed to return orders for one branch — and it kept handing back orders it had no business showing. I had the code. The code looked fine.

An app I'd used for years launched perfectly on my new Mac — three copies of it at once, all alive in Activity Monitor — and not one of them showed its little bat icon in the menu bar.

All I wanted was to get one project running on my laptop. Seven weeks later I'd written a tool whose only job was to find the trapdoors, and I was running the same code in five copies at once just to keep the fights straight.