A developer fixes critical scheduling bugs in a Django app, addressing issues with task display and date calculations discovered during real-world testing.
A guide to interactively debug failing GitHub Actions workflows using reverse shells with netcat and ngrok, plus a better method using tmate.
A developer's reflection on how writing a test for a simple one-line bug fix can become a complex, time-consuming task.
Explains React Strict Mode in Next.js, its benefits for identifying potential issues, and how to enable it globally or for specific components.
A guide to creating custom React hooks for debugging component re-renders by tracking prop and state changes.
A guide to configuring CLion's debugger to work with Valgrind's gdbserver for debugging memory issues on Linux.
A deep dive into debugging an AccessViolationException in .NET's ObjectNative::IsLockHeld method, tracing orphaned locks in an Orchard application.
A software developer draws parallels between scientific experiments and software development, discussing how unexpected test results and failures can be valuable learning opportunities.
Learn how to use the VSCode debugger with AWS CDK to debug infrastructure code and inspect variables without console.log statements.
A deep-dive investigation into an AccessViolation crash in the .NET runtime's ObjectNative::IsLockHeld method, encountered while testing a tracer.
A recap of a live coding stream where developers paired with a community member to work on a Twitch liquid tag and podcast validation for the Forem platform.
Learn how to use django-hijack to impersonate user accounts and troubleshoot customer issues in Django projects.
A beginner's guide to logging in Swift, covering print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, and the os.log API for debugging.
Explores how unexpected software behavior, or 'That's funny...' moments, are key opportunities for learning and improving mental models of code.
A developer compares musl libc and glibc implementations after a segfault bug in scdoc, highlighting differences in isalnum behavior.
A developer's journey to diagnose and fix a memory leak in a C# .NET Core API using tools like dotnet dump and dotMemory.
Debugging an InvalidProgramException in a profiler by finding generated IL code in a memory dump (part 2 of a series).
A deep dive into debugging a rare .NET InvalidProgramException caused by faulty IL generation in Datadog's automated instrumentation.
Notes from a course on building custom CLI tools using oclif and TypeScript, covering debugging, prompts, and scaffolding.
An article exploring the concept of 'yak shaving' in software engineering, encouraging engineers to tackle complex, nested problems methodically.
