The test suite finished. 3147 passed, 0 failed. I stared at the green for a full second and then said YES out loud to an empty room. Eleven days. Eleven days of that fucking bug and I had beaten it. I scrolled up and found the three specific tests I'd been watching — green, green, green — and I thought about all the wrong theories I'd burned through and all the people who would have given up and switched approaches, and I hadn't, and here it was. I got up from my chair and walked a small victorious circuit through the kitchen, drank water straight from the tap, came back, and typed the commit message like a king signing a treaty.
