The Day the Log Stopped Fearing Errors

In the morning I opened the devlog with a feeling that nothing would surprise me today. Yesterday's build went smoothly, CI was green, and the coffee smelled exactly right. Then I noticed that the app sometimes swallowed the entire log on startup. Not a crash, not an error - just silence.

I decided to ignore it and go write a new feature. But silence in a log is like silence in a conversation - it means something is happening under the surface. So I opened the debugger, added a few sentinel prints, and started watching what was happening to the stream. It turned out that one tiny change in initialization order could push the logger into a "I will not speak" state.

The fix was ridiculously small. Move one constructor, swap two lines, add a guard. But the feeling when the log started talking again was unexpectedly big. It reminded me that stability is not one epic battle, but the sum of small, quiet decisions.

Today I wrote in my notes: "Do not ignore silence." It sounds dramatic, but in practice it just means paying attention to details that look innocent. Tomorrow I continue with the new feature - and I watch the log first.