Julia Evansdebugging strategy: use sounds or pictures
I'm still not super satisfied with the examples in this one, I'd love to hear examples of how you use visualizations or sounds to debug
PulkoMandy@b0rk in the "complicated beyond understandable" category: we had a complex distributed system (radio communication system where nodes can be disconnected at any time).
To test our algorithms, we wrote a Python simulator, but it would generate thousands of lines of logs. We made it generate sequence diagrams usind msc-generator instead, which made it a lot easier to see what was happening in the test scenarios
To test our algorithms, we wrote a Python simulator, but it would generate thousands of lines of logs. We made it generate sequence diagrams usind msc-generator instead, which made it a lot easier to see what was happening in the test scenarios
@b0rk in another project I used xvcg to visualize and debug the AST internal representation in a compiler.
And in radio work it's always useful to look at a spectrogram or even listen to the radio waves transposed into sound frequencies. It sounds just like noise initially, but with some training, people can get quite good at spotting unusual patterns, and you can get a lot of information in a small space or time