Took me 2 hours to find a single missing comma in my CSS

I spent all Tuesday night debugging why my site's mobile menu broke on just one page. Turned out I was missing a comma between two media query values in my stylesheet. A single character ate 2 hours of my life and I nearly deleted the whole project before I spotted it. Anyone else waste way too long on something this dumb?

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michael88011d ago

Oh, did you also have that fun moment where you're one Google search away from throwing your laptop out the window? (I've definitely been there, more times than I'd like to admit.) The worst part is you spend all that time blaming some massive framework or plugin issue, and it's literally just a missing piece of punctuation staring back at you from the screen. I swear, commas are the ninjas of coding - they hide in plain sight and strike when you're least expecting it. Honestly, I'm convinced CSS commas have a personal vendetta against me at this point.

eva_lewis11d ago

Did you ever find yourself staring at a line of code for 20 minutes before realizing the browser cache was serving you an old version the whole time? That one gets me every time, feeling like the smartest idiot in the room. Makes me wish there was a button to just dump the cache and the shame all at once.