6 Core Lessons from Broken Bugs
The philosophy that guides everything we do. These aren't rules—they're truths we've learned through failure, tested through experience, and now share with you.
Every error message is information. Every crash is a clue. Successful debugging starts when you stop fearing failures and start mining them for insights.
The fastest way to solve a problem is to understand it completely first. Rush debugging leads to band-aids. Patience leads to solutions.
Write down what broke, why it broke, and how you fixed it. Future you will thank present you. Documented lessons become institutional wisdom.
The bugs you fix in private help one person. The bugs you share help thousands. Your failure is someone else's curriculum.
The skills of debugging code apply everywhere: relationships, health, finances, career. Learn to trace root causes in all areas of life.
You don't grow from code that works. You grow from code that breaks, from problems you solve, from mistakes you recover from.
Why These Lessons Matter
At Broken Bugs, we don't believe in hiding our mistakes. We celebrate them. Every feature that never shipped, every debug session that lasted 8 hours, every architecture we had to rebuild from scratch—these are our greatest teachers.
The gap between good developers and great developers isn't talent. It's not even effort. It's how they treat failure. Great developers see every bug as a gift—information about what they misunderstood, didn't anticipate, or failed to test.
These lessons apply to everything. The debugging techniques you learn here, the methodical thinking, the patience, the curiosity—apply them to any challenge in your life. Because life is just a series of bugs you haven't solved yet.