Why seeing an error message makes me happy

What’s the worst kind of error message?

It's the one that you hear about but cannot see yourself.

On the other hand, the best kind of error message is the one you can make happen at will.

Because knowing the exact steps to generate the error will give you a lot:

• Valuable clues about what might and might not be the actual cause, so you can fix it efficiently.

• After you’ve fixed it, a set of steps you can use to test and confirm that it's really fixed.

Yes, we hope our systems will always be error free.

But when an error comes up, and you can actually make it happen at will, that's something to be happy about.

Because it means you're already halfway to getting it fixed.

All the best,
A.