https://tsvinc.dev/tags/c/ Recent content in C on tsvinc Hugo en-us Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://tsvinc.dev/posts/the-build-was-green-the-whole-time/ Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://tsvinc.dev/posts/the-build-was-green-the-whole-time/ <ul> <li><strong>12:06.</strong> <code>irc-bot</code>, freshly ported from Spring Boot to Micronaut 5.0.6, is committed with fourteen passing tests.</li> <li><strong>13:35.</strong> A test I had just written fails on a class name.</li> <li><strong>13:56.</strong> A sanitiser build of the group's C IRC daemon names the line where it writes to address zero.</li> <li><strong>19:15.</strong> The bot is launched against a real IRC network for the first time. By 19:20 there are three more failures on the list.</li> </ul> <p>Five failures in one afternoon. None of them broke compilation, and none of them tripped a test that existed before I went looking. They turned up because something finally ran: a proxy check, a socket, a live launch.</p>