How to Report a Bug So It Gets Fixed

I wanted to make a blog post like this for a long time, because it’s something that I wish I could find more of myself. I think one of the things that helps us most in our careers as software engineers is knowing how to debug problems, how to reproduce them, and how to report them.

What prompted me to write this was watching this awesome video from Kovarex, the founder of Factorio, where he goes through a bug report and tries to fix it. I thought the bug report was written pretty well, and I thought it might be helpful to show how I went about writing a bug report like this myself, and what the thought process was.