An app that disappears 1 second after launch. "Reinstalling doesn't fix it," but that became the key to identifying the culprit

Press the icon. A window appears for an instant. It disappears. Not a single line of error appears.That day, that app died 12 ...
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The story of how I tracked down a bizarre phenomenon where an Astro 5 build would hang forever at 0% CPU, only to find it was suffocating on 65,535 hard links in dist

It is 2:00 AM, the lights in the room are dimmed, and I am facing the darkness of the terminal. Even though it should have ...