Posted by jpluimers on 2026/11/10
B0rk always has interesting blog posts. This time a Python based one: [Wayback/Archive] Behind “Hello World” on Linux.
It teaches a whole lot of process loading and execution on Linux.
Via [Wayback/Archive] 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “behind “hello world” on Linux”
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/10
This happens so often: [Wayback/Archive] Jen Gentleman 🌺 on Twitter: “@XenoPanther This happens to me way too often”
Or on public repositories: [Wayback/Archive] Xeno 🐈⬛ on Twitter: “… Seriously? I was able to repro an issue but as soon as I began filing feedback. Fixed”
A reliable CI/CD environment helps on the former: that way you can produce a breaking build both locally and on the CI/CD in one go.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/15
Like many programmers, in my early days I was totally unaware how floating point values were stored. Even seemingly simple data structures are worth explaining, especially when debugging.
So I was glad getting referenced to [Wayback/Archive] Float Exposed and to [Wayback/Archive] Floating Point Visually Explained which I will quote a few bits below.
About bits: did you notice you can flick on the float.exposed bits to flip them? Try it!
The references came from replies to [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “floating point representation”
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/27
This is a follow-up on Bookmarklet for Archive.is to navigate to the canonical link which can be accessed from multiple URLs, some through redirection:
You can see the difference in these archived links (the navivate was a typo that I only spotted after the original blog post got published):
I wanted a Bookmarklet to find the last link; the one in the referenced blog post didn’t.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/16
Even seemingly simple data structures are worth explaining, especially when debugging. So I was glad with the explanation of [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “integer overflow”:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/10
I forgot scheduling this post, but it is still very relevant: about the debugging related materials by b0rk (Julia Evans) as they are not limited to just “The Pocket Guide to Debugging”.
It is excellent material to learn at home, work or be used during education.
Before the Elmo* takeover, she mainly used Twitter to post beta material and later the final versions. Easiest queries to find back the Tweets are:
Here are some of links found via the above lists of tweets:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/24
[Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “after the bug is fixed: write a postmortem”
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/17
[Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “debugging strategy: use sounds or pictures I’m still not satisfied with the examples in this one, I’d love to hear examples of how you use visualizations or sounds to debug”
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/04
Not just about getting unstuck during debugging: making progress is often about doing “the annoying thing”.
[Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “debugging strategy: do the annoying thing”:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/28
[Wayback/Archive] 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “debugging strategy: jump into a REPL” (more platforms in the replies to the Tweet)
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