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The Zen of Inbox Zero

Inbox Zero for Error Tracking

A practical guide to Inbox Zero for error tracking: why it works, when it doesn’t, and how it helps you stay focused, avoid buildup, and catch problems early.

June 13, 2025 by Klaas van Schelven
Man blowing things up on purpose (to gain understanding)

Raise Understanding

Here's a typical debugging scenario: you tweak the code, restart everything, but still – no difference. After 3 changes and some head-scratching…

March 17, 2025 by Klaas van Schelven
The 'midwit' from the 'bell curve' meme

The Four Year Bug

Apparently, two hours is too short for a “hard bug.” I recently shared a story about an AI-induced crash in my code, which…

January 20, 2025 by Klaas van Schelven
A programmer and his copilot, about to crash

Copilot Induced Crash

AI-assisted code introduces new types of bugs. Here's how LLM-assisted coding gave me 2024's hardest-to-find bug.

January 14, 2025 by Klaas van Schelven
A bug being held in a pair of hands

Handled Errors: why?

Handled errors explained: What they are, why they matter, and how to use them to debug and improve your app.

January 13, 2025 by Klaas van Schelven
A plain-text stacktrace being 'colored in' with a brush to have more context

dsnrun: on-demand sentry-sdk

dsnrun is a small utility that lets you run any Python script with sentry_sdk enabled, without needing to modify the script itself.

January 6, 2025 by Klaas van Schelven
Magnifying glass over a log file showing a stack trace

Logs with full Stacktrace Context

There are times when you want to log "something interesting" that isn't quite an error, but still something that's interesting enough to get the same rich debugging context. This article shows how.

December 10, 2024 by Klaas van Schelven
A 'local development' environment with a hammer, a laptop, and a coffee cup

Error Tracking in Local Development

Bugsink is built to help you track and fix errors in your applications as they are deployed in production. But why not just use it in local development too? I do, and it's awesome. Here's why…

October 31, 2024 by Klaas van Schelven
Breadcrumbs

Local Variables as Accidental Breadcrumbs

Directly seeing the values for local variables in your stacktrace is invaluable for debugging — in fact it's one of the main reasons Bugsink is so useful. However: what actually gets captured depends on…

October 5, 2024 by Klaas van Schelven