@werat

Building devtools and coding AI at @google, hacking on IDEs, debuggers, languages. Wannabe indie gamedev.

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Debugging is not just about putting breakpoints and stepping through the code, modern tools can do A LOT more -- werat.dev/blog/what-a-good-d…

What a good debugger can do 🔮

When people say “debuggers are useless and using logging and unit-tests is much better,” I suspect many of them think that debuggers can only put breakpoints on certain lines, step-step-step through...

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$2 worth of tokens for Opus5.5 -- github.com/werat/emojiv What a time to be an engineer!
Gergely Orosz
@GergelyOroszSep 25
Linear is next level: they integrated Jev into the emoji picker already and it’s AMAZING (This is response on a thread on how Google Docs’ emoji picker has been the same unusable mess for ~20 years; the ✅ icon still unfindable on my free and paid accounts)
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CEO Senior dev Junior dev Intern
Krax
@KraxkrokatAug 27
Replying to @Kraxkrokat
Prompt: "You have a drawing canvas available through tools. Draw: a self-portrait. When you are done, reply with one sentence about what you drew."
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Looks nice, but completely impractical. You either don’t read the response at all, or have to scroll all the way up to read from the beginning
ClaudeDevs
@ClaudeDevsAug 24
Long answers on Claude on web and desktop now stream ~4x smoother. We rebuilt the streaming renderer to only touch what's still changing, so a long reply stalls 9x less on a slower laptop, its worst freeze is 4.5x shorter, and on a 120Hz MacBook it holds 120fps start to finish.
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I wanted a nice and simple tool to see how text is represented in different encodings. Sadly, Google results are all crap. So I vibecoded one myself — werat.dev/encoding-explorer
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I really wish iPhone still had Force Touch and if you press too hard liquid glass cracks
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Took me a while to realize it’s a bundle of two games and not some insane crossover
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Ok, fine, you can get one can of chips Me:
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Looks like all young teachers have a similar story :) Happened at my university when I was a TA: - Hi, can I get the key for room 112? - Wait for the teacher, he’ll come and open! - but I am the teacher…
юля@ne_o_bumage20 Oct 2024
на меня также наехали в мой первый день работы в школе: — опаздываешь?! — нет, мне ко второму — а какой урок? — английский — у Ларисы Степановны? — у меня — пререкаешься? сейчас завуча позову! спецназ гру не иначе
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Is this Hyrum's law?
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2 seconds is much better than 5, but ever wondered why is it _seconds_? Here’s why, and how to make it go real fast — werat.dev/blog/how-condition…

How conditional breakpoints work 🐢

Conditional breakpoints are extremely useful, but everyone knows [citation needed] that they’re super slow, to the point where people stop using them. Visual Studio recently did some good improveme...

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Ryan Fleury
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Andy Hippo retweeted
badcop@badcop_1 Feb 2024
we are in the arena of ideas
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What’s sufficient for 99% of applications
Jordan Singer
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the design                                 the implementation
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I’ve been asked a few times already, so I compiled a list of materials to learn about debuggers (how they work & related areas). Hope it will be useful! werat.dev/blog/learning-abou…

Learning about debuggers

Today’s article is a collection of materials to learn more about debuggers: how they work, which technologies are under the hood, what kind of problems exist in this area. There is of course a big...

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Volkan Özçelik 🦌@vadidekivolkan31 Dec 2023
» We use tautologic clocks in our distributed systems. « You mean “monotonic”, right? » No, tautologic.
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In case you were wondering, the new wallpapers/screensavers in macOS Sonoma are ~500MB each and stored in "/Library/Application Support/com.apple.idleassetsd/Customer/4KSDR240FPS"
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Found my old notes about the work I put into making Wine/Proton minidumps useful and thought it would make an entertaining blog post -- werat.dev/blog/segmented-sta…

Segmented stacks in Wine/Proton minidumps

Last year I was working on improving debugging experience for Wine/Proton and part of that work went into supporting process crashdumps. Supporting minidumps was particularly important and of course...

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When people wonder why you can't "just port the game to linux/macos" or "just do XXX" it's always issues like this you encounter every step of the way
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Life imitates art
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- Hey, wanna go to a concert this Friday night? The concert:
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