Ron Garret on #debugging and fixing a failure on Deep #Space 1 when it was 200 million km away. #history #NASA
on 02024-01-31"Black Magic probe" #JTAG and #SWD #hardware #debugging homepage
on 02024-01-28The #Black-Magic-probe #hardware “is a #JTAG and #SWD adapter with a built in GDB server used for programming and #debugging ARM Cortex MCUs” at #pricing of US$75
on 02024-01-28#I2C and #SPI #debugging #hardware
on 02024-01-26Julia Evans is selling her zines about how to be a wizard, including this one about #debugging
on 02023-02-07Xavier Leroy of #OCaml fame found a nondeterministic #hardware bug (“nightmare-level erratum”) in Intel Skylake processors. “Short loops using both the AH/BH/CH/DH registers and the corresponding wide register may result in unpredictable system behavior” #debugging
on 02017-07-13AMI firmware was overwriting some of the flash during shutdown, which was bricking machines they were flashing #coreboot onto. Fixed now. #Debugging story.
on 02017-04-26programming #education should teach #debugging; the circuit debugging story #formina
on 02017-04-26a story of printf-#debugging the Atom text editor with to fix a critical #performance bug hidden in an exponential-time regexp due to catastrophic backtracking in the traditional-style NFA engine used by Atom’s JS engine. “This was surely the wildest adventure I’ve had so far in the open-source world.”
on 02016-01-29