I just blew my stash!
So I had occasion to be doing some code cleanup late at night and I accidentally deleted some git stashes I had around. Now the code was super important, I didn't actually remember what was in those stashes. But this was git so I figured I could get it back.
My first thought was to use the reflog, but a git reflog didn't show any signs of my stashes. That's when I went to DuckDuckGo to find out! My search to recover deleted git stash took me to s stackoverflow answer.
The solution was using a git command I was not yet familiar with (but now have a lot more reason to find out more about).
git fsck --no-reflog | awk '/dangling commit/ {print $3}'
The important part was the awk command searching for the "dangling" string along with the --no-reflog.