Jake Weidokal jakeweidokal

name

hypothesis-driven-debugging

description

Debug intermittent, hard-to-reproduce, or poorly understood failures by generating ranked hypotheses and building small throwaway diagnostic utilities to test them one at a time. Use when: a bug is flaky, non-deterministic, or only happens in certain environments; a race condition, timing issue, or state-management bug is suspected; logs are insufficient and the failure cannot be reproduced on demand; previous fix attempts did not stick; the user says 'sometimes', 'randomly', 'intermittently', 'can't reproduce', 'works locally but not in CI', or asks to find a root cause. DO NOT USE FOR: deterministic errors with a clear stack trace, compile/type errors, or failing tests with obvious assertions — fix those directly.

Hypothesis-Driven Debugging with Throwaway Utilities

Do not try to find and fix the bug in one shot. Instead, run tight loops: hypothesize, instrument, observe, discard. Throwaway diagnostic tooling is cheap to generate, so build it free

type

project

status

🟡

description

Miscellaneous personal tasks

aliases

#p/personal

I use the project file to track tasks for a given project. I use tags like #p/personal to associate a task to a project. The alias in the YAML front matter allows me to navigate to this tasks page by clicking on the tag from a tasks query.

Below is the dashboard I use for my tasks. It contains views by project and by due date. I mostly use the due dates to organize tasks, and then look at individual project files. I have another gist that shows an example of one of my projects files.

[[000 Home]]

[[Work]]

[[😺 NCAT]]
[[🤖 Automation]]
[[📊 NMIS API]]
[[👨‍💻 Technical Standards]]
[[🏦 Infrastructure]]

var pages = dv.pages('#daily');
pages = pages.filter(p => p.file.name.includes('<% tp.date.now('YYYY-MM', 0, tp.file.title, 'YYYY-MM') %>'));
var titles = [], weights = [], eatingWindows = [];
pages.sort().forEach(p => {
	titles.push(p.file.name);
	weights.push(p.weight || 0);
	eatingWindows.push([p.startEating, p.endEating]);
});

week	<% tp.date.now('ww',0, tp.file.title, 'YYYY-MM-DD') %>
tags	daily

<% tp.web.daily_quote() %>

<% tp.date.now("dddd, MMMM Do YYYY", 0, tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD") %>

	{
	"editor.tabSize": 2,
	"editor.minimap.enabled": false,
	"workbench.sideBar.location": "right",
	"editor.formatOnSave": true,
	"editor.fontSize": 14,
	"editor.codeActionsOnSave": {
	"source.fixAll": "explicit",
	"source.organizeImports": "explicit"
	},

	// In Obsidian, this code should be wrapped in ```dataviewjs
	// It requires the dataview plugin and Obsidian Charts plugin

	// Get all daily notes by the #daily tag
	var pages = dv.pages('#daily');

	// Filter to only daily notes in this month
	pages = pages.filter(p => p.file.name.includes('2023-06'));

	/*