Crazy Debugging Stories – Quota by thunderbong

Published Wednesday, Jan 8, 2025 – 741 words, 4 minutes Welcome to a new post in my miniseries about some crazy bugs I’ve had to investigate and debug throughout my career. This story is from about three years ago, at a previous job. I was involved in doing a lift-and-shift migration from on-prem to Google

ByHackTechJanuary 9, 20250Comments

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Print Debugging Should Go Away by pcfwik

This is based on a comment I left on HN. Many people prefer print debugging over interactive debugging tools. Some of them seem to have concluded that the superiority of print debugging is some kind of eternal natural law. It isn’t: almost all the reasons people use print debugging can be overcome by improving debuggers

ByHackTechNovember 13, 20230Comments

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Debugging my life as an engineering manager with ADHD by lukaszkorecki

I was always a software engineer first, and I never planned (or wanted) to become a manager. Dealing with software seemed much easier than dealing with people. Working on hard technical problems felt natural, but having to deal with emotional matters and nuances in communication always bothered me.However, when I co-founded my previous company, among

ByHackTechJuly 27, 20230Comments

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Ask HN: How can I use AI for thorny debugging? by andrewstuart

Consider the case where I have two programs written in C++.They each configure they own graphics environment, then they communicate with each other and pass a file descriptor which is meant to allow them to talk to each other via dma buf.But the dma buf connection doesn’t work.I know that somewhere amongst all the permutations

ByHackTechApril 16, 20230Comments

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Debugging D-Link: Emulating firmware and hacking hardware by a_morris

GreyNoise doesn’t have much common need for detailed firmware analysis. If it’s happening on the internet, we already see it. However, when we do need to investigate vulnerabilities in embedded devices, things can get very complicated, very quickly if no information is publicly available. It can be fun and insightful to learn these skills in

ByHackTechMarch 16, 20230Comments

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Debugging JavaScript: From Frustration to Elation by kk5190

Photo by Elisa Ventur on UnsplashDebugging JavaScript — from frustrating puzzle to triumphant victory! This blog unwraps the tools and tactics for successful debugging with a dash of humor. Get ready to swap frustration for pure elation.The console is your BFF when it comes to debugging in JavaScript. To access it, right-click on the page

ByHackTechJanuary 28, 20230Comments

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Debugging Wine with x86 hardware debug registers by coldpie

Last week, I was working on a crash bug in a game running in Proton. About 90% of the time, the game would crash at some random point during the publisher logo screens. Rarely, it would succeed and get to the game’s main menu. That kind of inconsistent behavior points to some kind of invalid…

ByHackTechJune 3, 20220Comments

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Better debugging in Xcode with LLDB commands by atultw

April 12, 2022tl;dr Xcode’s lldb allows you to do more than just view variables. You can write code that gets evaulated on the fly. Xcode even shows you completions! For a long time, the only debugging I did was using print and friends. In fact, I only stumbled across breakpoints when I clicked an Xcode…

ByHackTechApril 13, 20220Comments

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How to Read Java: Understanding, debugging, and optimizing JVM applications by teleforce

I have never seen a book on debugging as thorough as this book. Knowing more about the techniques listed in this book will make development more efficient for any developer. Look inside Effectively reading and understanding existing code is a developer’s superpower. In this book, you’ll master techniques for code profiling, advanced debugging, and log…

ByHackTechMarch 29, 20220Comments

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