There should be a word for the feeling that arises out of the following situation: There’s a bug in your code; it’s been there for weeks. People keep complaining about it; you keep thinking you’ve fixed it, but every single time, someone else comes back and says its still happening. So, you leave it for a couple of weeks, and go and work on something else. Then you go back and look at the code again, and within half an hour (or some other similarly short period of time) you’ve fixed the problem, and it turns out to be a simple, one-line fix. On the one hand, you’ve fixed this bug which has been plaguing you for ages, and that makes you happy; on the other hand, it was obviously something stupidly simple and you spent days/weeks staring at the code without spotting it, and that makes you feel stupid and angry and annoyed.

Anyway, I have stomped on such a bug today, which should now mean that sound effects work nicely on low-end soundcards without being all glitchy and annoying. Hurrah.

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