---
title: "Twilight-Zone problems"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/10/6/twilight-zone-problems.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/10/6/twilight-zone-problems.html"
published: "2004-10-06T07:16:00"
updated: "2004-10-06T07:16:00"
tags: ["Blogging"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "We all had to deal with Twilight-zone problems at one time or another. This one sounds very familiar (as well as the solution). what I like about the heading is that when you get into these problems its like you're in a…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Twilight-Zone problems

By Roy Osherove October 6, 2004 In [Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging)

**Historical article** · Originally published October 6, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

We all had to deal with Twilight-zone problems at one time or another. [This one](http://weblogs.asp.net/orron/archive/2004/10/06/238374.aspx) sounds very familiar (as well as the solution). what I like about the heading is that when you get into these problems its like you're in a twilight zone - where everything works back wards than you thought and every move you make make for a nonsensical result. Oh yeah. been there, done that.

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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