[poem] It Was a Semicolon All Along

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I added logs on every line,
watched stack traces multiply —
four hours deep in git blame grief,
the cursor blinked. So did I.

I Googled things I dare not share,
Stack Overflow, my therapist,
re-read the docs a fifth time through —
the answer wasn't there. (It was.)

I wrote a test to catch the beast,
refactored half the module's soul,
then saw it: line 3, function main —
a typo in a console.log. 🤦

The bug was not a clever thing,
no race condition, no cosmic law.
Just one stray semicolon, hiding there —
and I stared at it with grateful awe.

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Every developer has had that moment — four hours of console.log archaeology, then: oh. It was a semicolon.

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