amodm

Weekend Dev Puzzle

Some time between 2021-22, I ran a list of puzzles designed to push developers into developing a better understanding of the technologies they use on a day to day basis. Each puzzle is designed to be fun, provocative, and short.

This is a complete list of those puzzles. Each link takes you to the tweet where I first posed the problem. If you like any of them, please feel free to share with others.

Edit (2024-01-27): Adding other puzzles to this 2024 onwards. Criteria:

1. Problem statement should be understandable by most in s/w tech, even if the ability to figure it out may not be.
2. Thinking about the problem should lead to clearer understanding of some foundational concept.
3. Should be short.
4. Should be fun to ponder over.

amodm

How debuggers work

Writing this post in response to the WeekendDevPuzzle of 2022-01-15. This thread has a bunch of submissions, and it's insightful to go over how we often think about debuggers. I'll be linking this post to this twitter thread, which may also contain some follow up twitter follow ups later.

On Linux

Let's start with a simple piece of code. This is the program we'll be debugging. As you can see, it's a fairly simple piece of code. We will be setting a breakpoint on the crashtest function, crashing the debugger and seeing what happens.

Let's start with running this program (we've compiled using gcc -o testdebugcrash testdebugcrash.c). We'll be running this on Linux for now (the importance of this will be understood later). ![start-program](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1546858/149652729-dbfa2104-a

vipul-sharma20

Pressure Cooker Chicken

Ingredients

• 3-4 Onions
• 2-3 Tomatoes
• Pick a few aromats on whatever is available. eg. Elaichi, Dalchini, Laung, Bay Leaf

Powders and Pastes

• Hing
• Dhania
• Jeera

mayneyao

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const DISQUS_SHORTNAME = "agodrich"

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asukakenji

Go (Golang) GOOS and GOARCH

All of the following information is based on go version go1.17.1 darwin/amd64.

GOOS Values

GOOS	Out of the Box
aix	✅
android	✅

thure

Fundamentals: why state machines?

States. The final frontier. These are the voyages of an enterprising developer. Her eternal mission: to explore strange new techniques, to seek out better ways to engineer for mental models and new design patterns. To boldly go where a few awesome devs have gone before.

So you’ve found our poignant guide to SCXML and surely you’re wondering “Why should I want to go out of my way to use formal state machines?” or something like that. Hopefully this introduction addresses that kind of question.

An example: Nancy’s RPG

The problem

kerryrodden

license: apache-2.0

mattetti

package main

import (
	"bytes"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"log"
	"mime/multipart"
	"net/http"
	"os"

kenshinx

package main

import (
	"os"
    	"log"
	"net"
	"strconv"
	"strings"
)

rgreenjr

-- show running queries (pre 9.2)
SELECT procpid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, current_query 
FROM pg_stat_activity 
WHERE current_query != '<IDLE>' AND current_query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%' 
ORDER BY query_start desc;

-- show running queries (9.2)
SELECT pid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, query 
FROM pg_stat_activity 
WHERE query != '<IDLE>' AND query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'